From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/repo: rename "references.format" to "references.storageFormat"
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 07:53:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asSM12B35oka08Nu@pks.im> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZTNNY_XuixqZ96TK0zFfDpWvxSupxVGOnH1VGXK4KF_0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 05, 2026 at 03:11:19PM +0000, Karthik Nayak wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
> > As part of 2f28db44d5 (Merge branch 'ps/ref-storage-format', 2026-10-01)
> > we have adapt all sites that used to say "reference format" to instead
> > say "reference storage format".
> >
> > One missed spot though was in git-repo(1), where we still print the
> > "references.format" key. Fix that oversight by renaming the key to
> > "references.storageFormat".
>
> The patch looks good, but this does break backward compatibility. But
> since the command it marked as experimental, this should be okay.
Right, I should've probably mentioned this as part of the commit
message. We could for a while carry both keys of course. But given that
it's marked as experimental I think it's okay to break the format and
drop the old key.
Thanks!
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-06 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-05 10:14 [PATCH] builtin/repo: rename "references.format" to "references.storageFormat" Patrick Steinhardt
2026-10-05 15:11 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-10-06 5:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2026-10-06 11:57 ` Karthik Nayak
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