On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:26:13PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > There are a few reasons not to: > > > > - it breaks backwards compatibility (unless we continue to create the > > directory in order to put the dot-lock in it, but then I don't think > > we've gained anything) > > Is that the kind of backwards compatibility that matters, though? I > mean, I won't claim to know all the internals of how refs are used, but > you sound like the theoretical incompatibility would be two different > versions of git racing for update-ref on the same local repository. Yes, that's true. It's a lesser breakage than "you cannot go back to the old version at all". -Peff -- 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