From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: "git archve --format=tar" output changed from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2.1 Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:05:55 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvca8653g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20130131172805.GC16593@kroah.com> <7vzjzpgswz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130131174103.GA20111@kroah.com> <7vr4l1gqv8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130204004512.GB6243@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rene Scharfe , git@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Greg KH X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 04 06:06:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U2EG5-0004TS-Oz for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:06:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750901Ab3BDFF6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:05:58 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:54968 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735Ab3BDFF6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:05:58 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C11A84C7; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:05:57 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=nX2L/ASI4oaYDbl+oGfTcn2piqA=; b=avsotu RB4XN6havdy9ayuDKgHQQsI4FYmMudN+l+zK2PPWBZIzhjd+LJFsXHKe+bThfYqB CKa3IEzvjccjDOF8y6nYRF+/d76e20HkFoAPYWBcLmgGTTQHMnu82Gabp0y6wqy3 cfSYzhmGhNZp8aFs1u88xr/ZAhQ4q9leYW270= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Rk6S0MgL6muXubzdUImgvXWScidP4y1W wDTgzygz7Ih7OGTJqD3LnAPZkUpCEtXDoflBBYP381ocmmTEoVDX06i6l6UyiOuD k/LROK4XJG5YeN4EM2w+5RjTioGJpKV0BP2J2jQmtfkAZSWCx14+9Z7yL3QZWah5 iObpVmK4UbI= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DC384C2; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:05:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 844D584AC; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:05:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20130204004512.GB6243@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Sun, 3 Feb 2013 18:45:12 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8ED5C366-6E88-11E2-A0BE-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Greg KH writes: >> Then how about fixing kup to try both versions of Git? There will >> be people who run different versions of Git anyway, and kup should >> not be preventing Git from helping people on other platforms, or >> improving its output in general. > > I think the combinations of different versions of git that would have to > be installed on kernel.org to handle stuff like this as things change > over time, wouldn't be worth it. You make it sound as if you have to pick the right one among 47 different versions, but I think over the lifetime of Git there was only one time that output from "diff" would have affected the kup's trick to avoid the transmission of patch text, and another that output from "tar-tree" (aka "archive --format=tar") would have afffected the transmission of tarballs. I do think it is feasible if "kup" wanted to. > The number of people this affects right now is only one (me), given that > the offending file is not in Linus's tree right now, so he doesn't have > issues with uploading new releases. As a tree grows larger over time, it may be just a matter of time for somebody else to be hit by another deep path, though.