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 18:23:23 -0800 Organization: Oracle Corporation Message-ID: <20071218022323.GD13821@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20071214223957.GC7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071215004230.GF7300@mail.oracle.com> <20071217200920.GB19816@mail.oracle.com> <7v3au16myj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbq8o4yxc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Joel Becker , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 18 03:24:34 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 1J4S8H-0003Ez-8d for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:24:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751607AbXLRCYG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:24:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751492AbXLRCYF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:24:05 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:20372 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751003AbXLRCYE (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:24:04 -0500 Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id lBI2NaNj029878; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:23:36 -0600 Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBHIVnb3028385; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:23:35 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 6411398331197944604; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:24 -0800 Received: from mfasheh by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1J4S79-0005yT-Ha; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:23 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vbq8o4yxc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> 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: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:41:19PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It is not a corruption, but the distinction doesn't matter much to the > end user who wants to get the job done with the data right now. The > data that was made inaccessible is inaccessible. The only difference is > that it is recoverable once the user upgrades, but that may be painful, > even though it may be rewarding afterwards and worth doing so, and the > user may not be able to afford doing so right at that moment. Junio, I agree 100% with your description here. This is all about user experience and data which is silently made inaccessible makes them feel pretty bad. --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com