On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > By the way, just as a data point: I do keep some git repositories on > > > NFS, and access them from multiple machines with different git versions > > > (not on purpose--it's just that the machines don't all run the same > > > distro, so it'd be extra work to give them all the same version). I > > > don't use anything older than 1.5.0. If the repository became unusable > > > on one of those machines without warning it'd be annoying. > > > > What the v1.5.5 release notes will say is that you'll have to set > > pack.indexversion=1 to remain compatible with pre-1.5.2 Git versions. > > Is there any reason not to make pack.indexversion=1 the default (for > preexisting repositories at the very least) and suggest in the release > notes that people set something else if they want the features the new > version provides? That's already the case now. But the thing is that index version 2 is better and actually plug a flaw in the repacking process where unnoticed corruption could be repacked otherwise. So for better repo integrity sake, it has to become the default at some point. Nicolas - 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
