From: Junio C Hamano <hidden> Date: 2016-11-09 22:58:02
Josh Triplett [off-list ref] writes:
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This would definitely need protocol extension when transferring
objects across repositories.
It'd also need a repository format extension locally. Otherwise, if you
ever touched that repository with an older git (or a tool built on an
older libgit2 or JGit or other library), you could lose data.