"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > Here's something we didn't think about, but that occurred to me today > when reading this series: If we move the SHA-1 table out of the index > and into the packfile (like we are planning) dumb commit-walkers > (http-fetch) will have problems. Right now they download the > indexes of every available packfile to determine if they need to > download the corresponding packfile to obtain a needed object. If we really care about older dumb clients, one option is to generate not .idx but .idx2, and have a corresponding .idx only to support them. But at that point, it's probably cleaner to have an explicit option to produce .idx file of a particular version, and tell people to pack public repositories they expect older dumb clients to access with that option to keep things backward compatible. - 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