From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:52:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20071214215206.GB7300@mail.oracle.com> References: <7vk5nwu51x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsl2jh3rb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 14 22:53:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J3ITN-0006jR-7B for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:53:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754788AbXLNVxF (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:53:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754565AbXLNVxD (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:53:03 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:40472 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262AbXLNVxB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:53:01 -0500 Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id lBELqbnj006767; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:37 -0600 Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBE131sx014199; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:52:36 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com by acsmt358.oracle.com with ESMTP id 6372202561197669127; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:07 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J3IRz-0006MF-8Y; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:52:07 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Which means what? Local clone with shortcut (hardlinking and remotes)? > > Dumb protocols (http, ftp, rsync)? > > Right, or simply shared repo over NFS or the like. > > The 1.5.5 release notes will contain a note reminding people to set the > corresponding config variables if they wish to retain the legacy > behaviors. We've seen that release notes are a poor way to communicate this. What will happen to a 1.4.4 user when they try to access the repository? Corruption, cryptic error message, or clean "this repo is not compatible" message? Joel -- "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit." - R. E. Shay Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127