From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Recent and near future backward incompatibilities
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061015224012.GC5092@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4pu62ite.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:29:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It was brought to my attention that the public git.git
> repository cannot be cloned with older versions of git. More
> precisely, packs generated with post 16854571 (NOT contained in
> v1.4.2.3 but in the current "master" and more importantly in
> v1.4.3-rc3 which I tagged tonight) can contain deltas that are
> not compatible with the version of git before d60fc1c8, which
> means that v1.1.6 and older (v1.2.0 and later are Ok).
By the way, note that Ubuntu Dapper (the current stable version of
Ubuntu) is shipped with git version 1.1.3, and that incompatibility
extends not to the git repository, but also the Linux-2.6 repostiory
at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-15 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-15 6:29 Recent and near future backward incompatibilities Junio C Hamano
2006-10-15 7:44 ` [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional Junio C Hamano
2006-10-15 9:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-15 15:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-15 18:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-15 18:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-16 4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-16 13:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 18:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 20:00 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-10-16 2:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 13:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-17 16:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-17 16:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 19:29 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-10-15 14:52 ` Recent and near future backward incompatibilities Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-15 15:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-10-15 18:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-15 22:40 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-10-15 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 2:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
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