Re: I want to release a "git-1.0"

Dear diary, on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:00:55AM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> It shouldn't be hard to do one, except that locking with rsync is going to
> be a pain. I had a patch to make it work with the rpush/rpull pair, but I
> didn't get its dependancies in at the time.

Was that the patch I was replying to recently? It didn't seem to have
any dependencies.

> I can dust those patches off again if you want that functionality included.
> 
> The patches are essentially:
> 
>  - make the transport protocol handle things other than objects
>  - library procedure for locking atomic update of refs files
>  - fetching refs in general
>  - rpull/rpush that updates a specified ref file atomically
> 
> At least the first would be very nice to get in before 1.0, since it is an
> incompatible change to the protocol.

I would like to have this a lot too. Pulling tags now is a PITA, and I
definitively want to go in this way. So it will land at least in git-pb.
:-) (But that's a little troublesome if you say it's incompatible
change.)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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