Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper bound for > > > > backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian stable. It gets > > > > probably the most stale from all the widely used software distributions > > > > using Git, and it *is* quite widely used. Etch carries v1.4.4.4, which > > > > fails miserably on the new packs. > > Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2? That > wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it. If we consider that supporting 1.4.4.4 clients is still a priority, due to the widespread distribution of that version in a popular version of Debian, we shouldn't be rushing the index v2 or OFS_DELTA functionality on by default in 1.6.0. Instead we would wait until Debian stable (and most other widely popular distributions) are on a modern enough version of Git to understand this format. Really. As much as I'd love to see the switch to v2 made by default I don't think we can/should do it unless the majority of the user base will be able to grok it. And Debian etch sounds like it won't. -- Shawn. -- 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
