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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:51:27 +0000
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Cc: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>,
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin 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 
> > > > probably the most stale from all the widely used software distributions 
> > > > using Git, and it *is* quite widely used. Etch carries v1.4.4.4, which 
> > > > fails miserably on the new packs.
> 
> 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.

If we consider that supporting 1.4.4.4 clients is still a priority,
due to the widespread distribution of that version in a popular
version of Debian, we shouldn't be rushing the index v2 or OFS_DELTA
functionality on by default in 1.6.0.  Instead we would wait until
Debian stable (and most other widely popular distributions) are on
a modern enough version of Git to understand this format.

Really.  As much as I'd love to see the switch to v2 made by default
I don't think we can/should do it unless the majority of the user
base will be able to grok it.  And Debian etch sounds like it won't.

-- 
Shawn.