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 14:39:57 -0800 Message-ID: <20071214223957.GC7300@mail.oracle.com> References: <7vk5nwu51x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsl2jh3rb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071214215206.GB7300@mail.oracle.com> 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 23:41:53 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 1J3JE6-0006Ur-3Q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:41:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935109AbXLNWlA (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:41:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934562AbXLNWk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:40:59 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:21356 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935092AbXLNWk6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:40:58 -0500 Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBEMe08J028594; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:40:01 -0700 Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBE85H5P025549; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:39:59 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 6374869641197671998; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:39:58 -0800 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J3JCI-0007Dj-4p; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:39:58 -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 05:34:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joel Becker wrote: > > 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? > > There won't be any corruption. > > In the best case there will be a message along "x is not supported by > this version of Git -- please consider upgrading". In the worst case > it'll say "x is bad". That would be excellent, especially the former message. > But you know what? repositories with the change affecting 1.4.4 users > are _already_ out there and no one complained recently. Anyone pushing I did, as did people I work with. It's on git-list, even. I'm pretty sure it corrupted too. Joel -- "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." Oh, and don't forget where your towel is. Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127