On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Which means what? Local clone with shortcut (hardlinking and remotes)? > > Dumb protocols (http, ftp, rsync)? > > Right, or simply shared repo over NFS or the like. > > The 1.5.5 release notes will contain a note reminding people to set the > corresponding config variables if they wish to retain the legacy > behaviors. We've seen that release notes are a poor way to communicate this. What will happen to a 1.4.4 user when they try to access the repository? Corruption, cryptic error message, or clean "this repo is not compatible" message? Joel -- "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit." - R. E. Shay Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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