Re: [RFC 0/16] Introduce index file format version 5

On 08/03, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Gummerer [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Series of patches to introduce the index version 5 file format. This
series does not include any fancy stuff like partial loading or partial
writing yet, though it's possible to do that with the new format.

I applied the series on top of master. I had to manually resolve
09/16. You may want to rebase the series on master for the reroll
(less work for Junio) and remove trailing whitespaces in the patches.

Thanks, I'll do that for the reroll.

All tests passed (with v5 by default (*), I notice it now), which is
wonderful. I'll have a closer look on the following days. Thank you
for working on this.

(*) while it's good to run tests with v5 by default. I'm not sure if
we should make it by default in the next git release that comes with
v5. For one thing it'll stop older gits from using shared repos. And
we're not sure whether v5 introduces significant overhead in common
use cases.

I didn't intent to make index v5 the format, I just oversaw the hunk
that was changing it. I completely agree that v5 should not be default
yet to avoid any surprises, also for users of jgit, libgit2 etc.