On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:01:17PM +0100, demerphq wrote: > > Shouldn't an old git just ignore headers from a new git? > > > > I mean, forget about the fact that somebody is doing something naughty > > with the git protocol, ask youself if you want this rule to basically > > prevent any backwards compatible changes with older gits. > > We have done similar changes in the past and if there would be such > a change, we can phase-in it over the course of several releases. > I think the fall-out would not be that bad; we have some experience > with even making Debian-stable Git compatible with new stuff. ;-) Heh... That's because I was crazy enough to do that work so the new features I implemented in the latest version could be enabled by default sooner. And incidentally those features weren't controvertial at all which sorta helped. Nicolas -- 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