Re: [RFC 0/16] Introduce index file format version 5

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On 08/03, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Series of patches to introduce the index version 5 file format. This
> > series does not include any fancy stuff like partial loading or partial
> > writing yet, though it's possible to do that with the new format.
> 
> I applied the series on top of master. I had to manually resolve
> 09/16. You may want to rebase the series on master for the reroll
> (less work for Junio) and remove trailing whitespaces in the patches.

Thanks, I'll do that for the reroll.

> All tests passed (with v5 by default (*), I notice it now), which is
> wonderful. I'll have a closer look on the following days. Thank you
> for working on this.
> 
> (*) while it's good to run tests with v5 by default. I'm not sure if
> we should make it by default in the next git release that comes with
> v5. For one thing it'll stop older gits from using shared repos. And
> we're not sure whether v5 introduces significant overhead in common
> use cases.

I didn't intent to make index v5 the format, I just oversaw the hunk
that was changing it. I completely agree that v5 should not be default
yet to avoid any surprises, also for users of jgit, libgit2 etc.
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