On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The welcome message is necessary to distinguish the long running > filter protocol (v2) from the current one-shot filter protocol (v1). > This is becomes important if a users tries to use a v1 clean/smudge > filter with the v2 git config settings. Oh I see, that's why we're at v2 now. How do you distinguish between v1 and v2? Does the welcome message need to follow a certain pattern to be recognized to make it v2+ ? > > Thanks a lot for the review, > Lars Sorry for repeating the questions (it seems I missed a lot of the prior discussion), but I think these questions may help future readers of the commit message, Thanks, Stefan -- 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