Re: [PATCH] commit-graph: warn about incompatibilities only when trying to write

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2021, 17:18 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqft1essfz.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <8735xgkvuo.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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>> I am tempted to say that we should revert c85eec7f (commit-graph:
>> when incompatible with graphs, indicate why, 2021-02-11) for the
>> upcoming release.  That would give us enough time to come up with
>> and cook the solution in 'next' in the meantime.
>
> That's probably sensible.
>
> Also, I noticed that we went through this whole saga in the past, see
> 25575015ca (repack: silence warnings when auto-enabled bitmaps cannot be
> built, 2019-07-31), including breaking background gc.

Thanks and sigh ;-)