From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:52:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214215206.GB7300@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712140836140.8467@xanadu.home>
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@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 22:04 v1.5.4 plans Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 22:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-02 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-02 23:39 ` David Symonds
2007-12-03 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 10:00 ` Many things pushed out to 'master' Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 11:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 18:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03 22:44 ` [PATCH] fast-export: rename the signed tag mode 'ignore' to 'verbatim' Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 22:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 9:06 ` [PATCH] Fix quote_path when called with negative length Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-03 17:18 ` Jeff King
2007-12-03 18:06 ` v1.5.4 plans Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-03 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 3:32 ` [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 13:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 12:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 13:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 21:52 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2007-12-14 22:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-14 22:39 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-14 22:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15 0:42 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-15 1:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-15 1:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-15 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-15 2:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 20:09 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 20:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:13 ` Joel Becker
2007-12-17 21:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 21:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 22:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 22:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 0:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-12-17 23:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-17 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-17 21:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 2:23 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18 3:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 3:52 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-18 4:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 5:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 9:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 14:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 11:11 ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 12:48 ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 13:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:30 ` Jeff King
2007-12-18 20:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-18 13:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-18 20:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 2:15 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-12-18 3:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-04 0:48 ` v1.5.4 plans Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-14 11:28 [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes linux
2007-12-14 15:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
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