Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

On 7/15/08, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
 > Those repos that think that access for Git 1.4 users is important for
 > them can set indexformat=1.

Unfortunately, you place quite a high maintenance burden on the repository
 maintainers here.

 From the time balance sheet, it does not look good at all: a few minutes
 for Junio to change and commit, up to a few hours (because they missed it
 in the release notes) for probably more than hundred repository
 maintainers that are not subscribed to the Git mailing list.

To take this in a slightly different direction, what exactly is the
benefit of the new feature?  Apparently my git doesn't have it enabled
by default, and git works fine for me.  Am I missing out on something
that I should feel inferior about if my non-debian-etch running
friends(*) found out about it? :)

Have fun,

Avery

(*) Actually I compile my own git from source anyway.  I never want to
live without "git rebase -i" and "git add -p" ever again.  Life is too
short! :)