From: Martin Atukunda <matlads@dsmagic.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:16:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117151653.GB3626@igloo.ds.co.ug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511171436170.13358@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:39:21PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Martin Atukunda wrote:
>
> > This patch series attempts to add .git/version support to init-db.c.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to add the variable VERSION to git-var? After
> all, git is designed to be backwards compatible; newer versions are
> supposed to work with ancient repositories.
>
> I think you are more interested in knowing which version the tools are at.
Actually this patch series is more a response to the thread
"Re: [PATCH] Disable USE_SYMLINK_HEAD by default" in particular see
this message 200511160205.43443.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de by Josef
Weidendorfer.
We've had at least one change that was backwards incompatible, though
this was in the ancient days of git development. This patch allows git to record what
version of the git tools created the repo we are dealing with. Just in
case future changes require this.
- Martin -
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 13:25 [PATCH] Add .git/version Martin Atukunda
2005-11-17 13:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] Build GIT_VERSION from VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, and SUBLEVEL variables Martin Atukunda
2005-11-17 13:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make init-db record the version in $GIT_DIR/version when creating repo Martin Atukunda
2005-11-17 13:39 ` [PATCH] Add .git/version Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-17 15:16 ` Martin Atukunda [this message]
2005-11-17 15:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-17 16:04 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-17 15:44 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-17 16:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-17 16:41 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-11-17 19:08 ` Martin Atukunda
2005-11-17 19:18 ` [PATCH] Add .git/version (Take 2) Martin Atukunda
2005-11-17 19:25 ` [PATCH] Add .git/version Junio C Hamano
2005-11-17 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-17 23:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-18 0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
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