On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > As for pack v4... My opinion is that nothing justifies it so far. So if > > I can convince Junio there shouldn't be any v4 just yet. > > The only concern I have is the commit walkers (rsync has the > same problem as well but we honestly do not care). They just > grab existing packs and try to use them. I have been wondering > if it might be safer to mark the delta-base-offset encoded packs > v4 to make sure the clients would get "I know only v2 and v3 but > you fed me v4" message. It'll get "this pack contains an unknown object type" kind of message, which is almost as good IMHO, with the same end result. 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