Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

Which means what? Local clone with shortcut (hardlinking and remotes)?
Dumb protocols (http, ftp, rsync)?

Right, or simply shared repo over NFS or the like.

The 1.5.5 release notes will contain a note reminding people to set the 
corresponding config variables if they wish to retain the legacy 
behaviors.

	We've seen that release notes are a poor way to communicate
this.  What will happen to a 1.4.4 user when they try to access the
repository?  Corruption, cryptic error message, or clean "this repo is
not compatible" message?

Joel

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