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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] bumping repository format version
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:50:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150623105042.GA10888@peff.net> (raw)

We've managed to avoid bumping core.repositoryformatversion for the past
10 years, which is great. But I think there are some looming features
that are going to need it. The most obvious one is changing the ref
storage, where we need some way to tell older gits "no, please don't
think that taking 'refs/heads/foo.lock' is sufficient to actually lock".

The first patch in this series is an attempt to pave the way for version
bumps like this in as painless a way as possible, by letting us mark
incompatible "extensions" by name. That way we can version things like
"how do you lock a ref" independent of the main repositoryformatversion
setting (just like we do for index version, for example).

See the explanation in the first patch for more details. The second
patch shows another use of the "extension" feature to provide safety
in shared-object repos against older versions of git.

  [1/2]: introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion
  [2/2]: introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension

-Peff

             reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-23 10:50 Jeff King [this message]
2015-06-23 10:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion Jeff King
2015-06-23 10:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension Jeff King
2015-06-23 11:14   ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-23 11:47     ` Jeff King
2015-06-23 21:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-24  7:50     ` Jeff King
2015-06-24 17:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-25 10:07         ` Jeff King
2015-06-23 21:31   ` David Turner
2015-06-24  7:55     ` Jeff King
2015-06-24  8:12   ` Jeff King
2015-06-24 10:29     ` Duy Nguyen

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