On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Would it be considered evil if we put the generation number in the
> pack, but not consider it part of the formal object (i.e., it would be
> just a cache, but one that wouldn't change once the pack was created)?
That would actually be a major change to data structures, and would
require some serious surgery and be hard to support in a
backwards-compatible way (think different git versions accessing the
same repository).
Much bigger patch than the one I did.
So it sounds like it would work - and it would probably be a simple
matter of just incrementing the pack version number if you just say
"cannot access the pack with old versions" - but I think it's a really
fragile approach.
Linus
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