On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> IMHO, keep this in next to avoid releasing it until we know the >> outcome of the GSoC project. The handful of WebKit developers that use >> Git that really benefit from index v4 can use it by building and >> installing their own next. >> ... >> Its only a few months to wait and see where "v5" goes. If v5 is >> successful, v4 will just be a minor footnote in the history of Git, >> and other tools won't need to support v4, they can go straight to v5. > > You may not have noticed this, but there is no practical difference > between keeping it in 'next' and releasing it to 'master' from the > third-party tool's point of view. > > There is _only_ one way to end up with v4 version of index: running "git > update-index --index-version 4". Thanks, I did miss this in the series. I hereby retract my complaint. :-) -- 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