Re: some questions

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

Thomas Pasch [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I try to migrate our old cvs repo to git.
However, I still have to following questions
that I found difficult to answer with
the documentation.

- Is there a way to convert a indexVersion 1
  repo to indexVersion 2? (And vice versa?)

The index itself is just a little file in .git/index. There might be a
better solution, but just

  rm .git/index
  git reset

seems to do it (of course, don't do while you have staged changes in
the index !).

True, that would reset the dircache (aka .git/index).  But we only
have effectively 1 version of the dircache.  Sure there was an older
version, way back before it got a version header and the ability to
get extension sections added.  I don't think there are many clients
using that format anymore.  That format predates the 1.4 series,
and we really encourage people to be on 1.5 or later.

The original poster asked about indexVersion 1 and indexVersion 2,
which means he is probably talking about pack.indexVersion and thus
a .idx file alongside a pack, not the dircache file that tracks
the working tree state.
 
-- 
Shawn.