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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

  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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