From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teemu Likonen Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:19:03 +0300 Message-ID: <20080714191903.GB5788@mithlond.arda.local> References: <7vlk0ffhw3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzf1w0rj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabgqsc37.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzetjbif.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzlokhpk7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <7v3amcgujd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Gerrit Pape , Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 14 21:23:35 2008 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 1KITe2-0004ta-12 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:23:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754625AbYGNTWf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754585AbYGNTWf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:22:35 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:38000 "EHLO kirsi1.rokki.sonera.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754487AbYGNTWe (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:22:34 -0400 Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi1.rokki.sonera.fi (8.5.014) id 487B3C2C0003C809; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:19:05 +0300 Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KITZf-0001aB-QW; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:19:03 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v3amcgujd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote (2008-07-14 12:00 -0700): > Nicolas Pitre writes: > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote: > >> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > >> > > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper > >> > > bound for backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian > >> > > stable. It gets > > Please consider it as a critical usability problem. > > > > Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2? That > > wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it. > I am of two minds here. > > On one hand, I am sympathetic to distros that want to give long time > support for ancient versions to keep working in an ever-changing new > world. It is a wonderful thing that there are distros that aim for > ultra conservative stability, and I applaud them. > > But as the upstream, we have our own deprecation schedule. As Debian stable (4.0 "Etch") and its git 1.4.4.4 was mentioned I'd like to point out that git 1.5.6 is available for Etch users from kind-of-semi-official . So I guess Debian stable users aren't left completely behind. Git's web page already advertises backports.org version for Etch.