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

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:34:49PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joel Becker wrote:

quoted

	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?

There won't be any corruption.

In the best case there will be a message along "x is not supported by 
this version of Git -- please consider upgrading".  In the worst case 
it'll say "x is bad".

	That would be excellent, especially the former message.
 

But you know what? repositories with the change affecting 1.4.4 users 
are _already_ out there and no one complained recently.  Anyone pushing 

	I did, as did people I work with.  It's on git-list, even.  I'm
pretty sure it corrupted too.

Joel

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