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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > As for pack v4... My opinion is that nothing justifies it so far.  So if 
> > I can convince Junio there shouldn't be any v4 just yet.
> 
> The only concern I have is the commit walkers (rsync has the
> same problem as well but we honestly do not care).  They just
> grab existing packs and try to use them.  I have been wondering
> if it might be safer to mark the delta-base-offset encoded packs
> v4 to make sure the clients would get "I know only v2 and v3 but
> you fed me v4" message.

It'll get "this pack contains an unknown object type" kind of message, 
which is almost as good IMHO, with the same end result.


Nicolas