Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

Junio C Hamano wrote (2008-07-14 12:00 -0700):

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote:

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

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I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper
bound for backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian
stable. It gets 

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Please consider it as a critical usability problem.

Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2?  That
wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it.

I am of two minds here.

On one hand, I am sympathetic to distros that want to give long time
support for ancient versions to keep working in an ever-changing new
world.  It is a wonderful thing that there are distros that aim for
ultra conservative stability, and I applaud them.

But as the upstream, we have our own deprecation schedule.

As Debian stable (4.0 "Etch") and its git 1.4.4.4 was mentioned I'd like
to point out that git 1.5.6 is available for Etch users from
kind-of-semi-official <www.backports.org>. So I guess Debian stable
users aren't left completely behind. Git's web page already advertises
backports.org version for Etch.