Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> There must be at least some deprecation period during which >> also the old .lock lockfiles are considered and created. >> Just imagine someone modifying the ref with an older version, >> which knows nothing about ..lck. > > As lock files are only supposed to be created by Git itself, and have a > maximum lifetime until the end of the process, I think we do not need a > grace period at all. Could there be people with slightly older git and shiny new jgit (or the other combination) working on the same repository? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html