From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:57:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Regarding "git log" on "git series" metadata
Message-ID: <xmqqtwbg8dn1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161106173311.lqoxxgcklx4jlrg7@x>

Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> writes:

>> This would definitely need protocol extension when transferring
>> objects across repositories.
>
> It'd also need a repository format extension locally.  Otherwise, if you
> ever touched that repository with an older git (or a tool built on an
> older libgit2 or JGit or other library), you could lose data.

True.  Thanks for sanity-checking me.