From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:49:08 -0800 Message-ID: <45B3C3B4.6000706@zytor.com> References: <7v64b04v2e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v3b6439uh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070121134308.GA24090@1wt.eu> <7v7ivg1a25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Willy Tarreau , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 21 20:49:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8igw-0001O1-0P for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:49:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751448AbXAUTtU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbXAUTtU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:49:20 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:43629 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbXAUTtT (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:49:19 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.16] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l0LJn8Ch013464 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:49:09 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v7ivg1a25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/2476/Sun Jan 21 08:22:33 2007 on terminus.zytor.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends > just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts > to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not > like to get "beta" installed for them. > > I wonder if kernel.org machines are also affected... > Put them in a different directory hierarchy if you don't want to make them installed. >> I know it's a bit late to ask, but if new on-disk format changes, isn't >> it time to bump the version to 2.0? It would be easier for many people to >> remember that GIT 1.X uses format version 1 and that GIT 2.X uses format >> version 2 with backwards compatibility with 1.X. I also think that 1.5 >> is much more different from 1.0 than a mid-term 2.0 would be from current >> 1.5. > > I think we could have gone either way (as you said, it is > probably a bit too late to discuss this), but it should probably > be Ok to stay at 1.X as long as these one-way-street format > updates are turned off by default. > > And the above happened way before this round and people have > hopefully been happily using. For example, v1.4.2 was done > early August 2006. In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if there is an incompatible change. -hpa