From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Fasheh Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:15:56 -0800 Organization: Oracle Corporation Message-ID: <20071218021556.GC13821@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20071214215206.GB7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071214223957.GC7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071215004230.GF7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071217200920.GB19816@mail.oracle.com> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Joel Becker , Jakub Narebski , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 18 03:18:32 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 1J4S2P-0001rf-Ps for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:18:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751792AbXLRCSG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:18:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751371AbXLRCSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:18:05 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:37631 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751638AbXLRCSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:18:04 -0500 Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBI2HXXI012095; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:17:33 -0700 Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBHIPCI1029609; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:17:32 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 6412098191197944156; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:15:56 -0800 Received: from mfasheh by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J4Rzw-0005t2-A5; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:15:56 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) 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: Hi, Just to "out" myself, I'm the "co-worker" whose name Joel has been (politely) keeping anonymous. On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 03:41:24PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > You may not see a case for actual corruptions, but my coworker > > updated his tree on a box with 1.5.x, then tried to work on a box with > > 1.4.x (I think 1.4.2 back then), and ended up with a tree that was > > unusable. He had to re-clone, and I think he got lucky recovering > > pending changes (probably using 1.5.x on the branches with the changes, > > as master was what got broken). > > I still claim that there wasn't any corruptions. The following description is really vague because this was a while ago: Something made my ocfs2.git tree unusable in that I could no longer do common tasks, such as git-log, etc without getting messages about corrupted refs. I wish I had saved off some of the messages. Sorry. I had to re-create my git tree several times before I learned by deduction that it was the older versions of git on some of the machines that were writing some sort of incompatible format. > Just for fun, just edit some document with Microsoft Office 95, then > open the same document with Office 2007 and save it with default > settings. Now try to open it back with Office 95. It won't work. > Does that mean that the document got corrupted? Boy, I hope Microsoft Office isn't our bar for compatiblity here... --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com