Re: [PATCH] Add .git/version

On Thursday 17 November 2005 16:38, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

But yes, it might be handy to know at some time. But I think it would make 
sense to add .git/version *then*, because you can distinguish repositories 
before/after the change by testing for .git/version.

No, as old git tools then still could corrupt a repository with a new format,
as they currently do not check any kind of format version; it would work if
the git 1 tools would bail out if a .git/version is found ;-)

Josef