From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <7vtzf1w0rj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabgqsc37.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzetjbif.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzlokhpk7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <7v3amcgujd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080715092023.GO10151@machine.or.cz> <20080715150626.GA2925@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <7v3amb0ymg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Dmitry Potapov , Petr Baudis , Nicolas Pitre , Gerrit Pape , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 16 00:11:14 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 1KIsjk-0001VA-BA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:11:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755990AbYGOWKI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:10:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755959AbYGOWKI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:10:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50246 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755787AbYGOWKG (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:10:06 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2008 22:10:05 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 16 Jul 2008 00:10:05 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/xtHQUAL/xCHJ0qQ+qubzC0kovZSTaiJFZKpCgEj GW1gPNPV7Sov+N X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <7v3amb0ymg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.71 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > What troubles me the most is that you seem to be forgetting that we are > using git to manage our codebase. I don't. I have vivid memories of updating an ancient git repository of Git itself, which had some almost forgotten changes in it. That was in the bad old days, when the version number did not even have a "1" in it. It could not even fetch the current git.git. I do _not_ want that to happen to anybody else, _even if_ we leave 1.4.4.4 Behind as if it was an American Child. Having said that, I do not have the resources to test and fix everything that may arise from Debian being seemingly unable to update to Git 1.5. So I agree completely that the ball is in Debian's half, and if they let it rot, it is sad, but I cannot help it. Ciao, Dscho