From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: Recent and near future backward incompatibilities Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20061015224012.GC5092@thunk.org> References: <7v4pu62ite.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Stephen Hemminger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 16 00:40:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZEef-00023o-D9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:40:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422920AbWJOWkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422916AbWJOWkV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:21 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:3308 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422920AbWJOWkU (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:20 -0400 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1GZEhJ-00041r-ND; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:43:09 -0400 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GZEeS-0000nu-DN; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:40:12 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v4pu62ite.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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