On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:34:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joel Becker wrote: > > 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? > > There won't be any corruption. > > In the best case there will be a message along "x is not supported by > this version of Git -- please consider upgrading". In the worst case > it'll say "x is bad". That would be excellent, especially the former message. > But you know what? repositories with the change affecting 1.4.4 users > are _already_ out there and no one complained recently. Anyone pushing I did, as did people I work with. It's on git-list, even. I'm pretty sure it corrupted too. Joel -- "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." Oh, and don't forget where your towel is. 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
