Hi, Quoting Paul Tan <pyokagan@xxxxxxxxx>:
Did we ever explictly allow external programs to poke around the contents of the .git/rebase-apply directory? I think it may not be so good, as it means that it may not be possible to switch the storage format in the future (e.g. to allow atomic modifications, maybe?) :-/ .
Think of e.g. libgit2, JGit/EGit and all the other git implementations. They should be able to look everywhere in .git, shouldn't they? I don't think we will just "switch" the storage format of any parts of the repo. Whatever new formats may come (ref backends, index v5, pack v4), they will be an opt-in feature for a long time before becoming default, and there must be an even longer deprecation period before the old format gets phased out, if ever. Gábor -- 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