From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] add push line in git-clone Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:16:00 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhcd0oiov.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4812DA50.3000702@gnu.org> <7vve1yzgfc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <482018E4.9000908@gnu.org> <482B0354.2060207@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 14 20:18:02 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 1JwLXB-0000N9-Ao for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 20:17:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758156AbYENSQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757150AbYENSQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:10 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:65022 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754202AbYENSQJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:09 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6988F4303; Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9435443F2; Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <482B0354.2060207@gnu.org> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Wed, 14 May 2008 17:20:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D283D6AA-21E1-11DD-863A-80001473D85F-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Paolo Bonzini writes: > Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >>> Used together with [1/7], this change is Ok in a homogeneous environment, >>> but it would break people who use git of different vintage on the same >>> repository (think of a repository on a networked filesystem). You clone >>> like this, and older git won't grok the push configuration anymore. >>> >>> It may look a very minor point, but I think it deserves mentioning. >> >> I think it is reasonable to require cloning with the >> least-common-denominator version in this case. Think of what >> happened if the pack format changed. > > Any news on this (and on 1/7, which is in pu)? I did not personally find that argument convincing, and I thought list agreed with me with silence ;-). The pack-format change is a big deal and benefit everybody. Comparing it with this change feels like comparing an apple and a poppy seed, doesn't it?