On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 13:27, George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > be enough for the time being. As a local cache, it can be extended > with a software upgrade. There's no need to ever have support for two > formats in any given release; just notice that the cache format is wrong, > blow it away, and regenerate it. Don't assume that. Consider a repository stored on NFS that is read-only to you. The NFS server has one version of Git installed, and is using cache format A. You have a newer version of Git installed on your workstation, using cache format B. Now you cannot use this repository as a local filesystem... its only available to you over the Git protocols. This breaks a number of people's environments. :-) Its better if we can avoid having to change file formats very often, even if they are a local "cache". -- Shawn. -- 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