From: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:41:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511171741.23147.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437CB0CA.6070306@op5.se>
On Thursday 17 November 2005 17:33, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Why? Ideally, the git commands first should check if they can handle the
> > repository format. If they can not handle the version, they should bail
> > out with an error [*]
> > Now suppose we want to release Git 2 without change the repository
> > format at all. Thus, even if Git 1 tool *would* work with repositories
> > created by Git 2, they will fail in the version check!
> >
>
> Not that I have an opinion on these changes, but Netscape 7 still
> handles HTTP 1.1. Just because we up the major-number for git doesn't
> mean we have to do the same for the repository format version.
Of course we do not want that.
My comment was about this, as the proposed patch installed a
.git/version file with the git version in it, which would lead to
this strange result.
Josef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 16:41 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
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 [this message]
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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