From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:33:14 +0100 Message-ID: <437CB0CA.6070306@op5.se> References: <11322339372137-git-send-email-matlads@dsmagic.com> <200511171644.48438.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 17 17:37:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcmhL-0002KP-Np for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:33:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932395AbVKQQdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:33:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932398AbVKQQdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:33:16 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:64217 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932395AbVKQQdQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:33:16 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55706BCBE for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:33:14 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200511171644.48438.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Josef Weidendorfer wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 14:25, Martin Atukunda wrote: > > As .git/version is part of the repository, it should contain the version > of the repository format used. Do you really want to link the version > of the repository format with the version of git which created the > repository? It think it is better to detach a repository version from > version of git. > > Why? Ideally, the git commands first should check if they can handle the > repository format. If they can not handle the version, they should bail > out with an error [*] > Now suppose we want to release Git 2 without change the repository > format at all. Thus, even if Git 1 tool *would* work with repositories > created by Git 2, they will fail in the version check! > Not that I have an opinion on these changes, but Netscape 7 still handles HTTP 1.1. Just because we up the major-number for git doesn't mean we have to do the same for the repository format version. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231