Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes: >> >>> If anything, maybe this patch can be added before v1.4.3 is released: >>> ... >>> This way pack v3 could be fed to GIT v1.4.3 and above whenever we add >>> back pack v3 generation, and a pack converted to v2 from any v3 on the >>> fly when that capability is not present. >> I think that is sensible. I also was thinking that we should >> call the current one packv3 and the one with delta-base-offset >> packv4. > > I think we should not. The pack version should be tied to incompatible > pack data to prevent older GIT versions from misinterpreting newer > packs. The delta block copy encoding is a perfect example of that where > a bit changed meaning. > > The delta-base-offset case included a new object type that wasn't used > before hence there is no room for confusion, and yet that new delta > object could be encoded according to pack version 2 or pack version 3 > which makes it orthogonal to the pack version itself. It's not a new object type. It's a new object _encoding_ method. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Oct 16 06:00:45 2006
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