From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt•eu>,
git@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:49:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B3C3B4.6000706@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7ivg1a25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends
> just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts
> to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not
> like to get "beta" installed for them.
>
> I wonder if kernel.org machines are also affected...
>
Put them in a different directory hierarchy if you don't want to make
them installed.
>> I know it's a bit late to ask, but if new on-disk format changes, isn't
>> it time to bump the version to 2.0? It would be easier for many people to
>> remember that GIT 1.X uses format version 1 and that GIT 2.X uses format
>> version 2 with backwards compatibility with 1.X. I also think that 1.5
>> is much more different from 1.0 than a mid-term 2.0 would be from current
>> 1.5.
>
> I think we could have gone either way (as you said, it is
> probably a bit too late to discuss this), but it should probably
> be Ok to stay at 1.X as long as these one-way-street format
> updates are turned off by default.
>
> And the above happened way before this round and people have
> hopefully been happily using. For example, v1.4.2 was done
> early August 2006.
In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if
there is an incompatible change.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-21 8:56 [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2 Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 9:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 10:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 11:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 18:12 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-23 19:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 20:12 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-23 20:22 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-01-23 20:31 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-24 10:06 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2007-01-23 20:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 21:09 ` Peter Baumann
2007-01-23 21:54 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-23 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-24 17:54 ` Mark Nudelman
2007-01-24 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-24 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-24 23:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-27 0:07 ` Mark Nudelman
2007-01-21 11:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 13:42 ` Bill Lear
2007-01-21 13:52 ` Bill Lear
[not found] ` <20070121145805.735815@dial-up-mi-352.lombardiacom.it>
2007-01-21 15:02 ` Michael
2007-01-21 21:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 21:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 22:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 22:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 13:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 19:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-01-22 17:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-21 20:01 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-22 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 19:46 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-21 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 21:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 22:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 22:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 23:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 23:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 23:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22 0:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-22 6:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-23 6:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] Refactor the pack header reading function out of receive-pack.c Junio C Hamano
2007-01-23 6:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow fetch-pack to decide keeping the fetched pack without exploding Junio C Hamano
2007-01-23 10:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 10:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-23 11:07 ` code movements in diffs, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 16:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-25 1:14 ` [PATCH] fetch-pack: remove --keep-auto and make it the default Junio C Hamano
2007-01-25 8:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-25 21:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-25 23:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-26 3:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-26 3:30 ` [PATCH] Allow non-developer to clone, checkout and fetch easier Junio C Hamano
2007-01-26 14:20 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-26 8:37 ` [PATCH] fetch-pack: remove --keep-auto and make it the default Johannes Sixt
2007-01-25 1:14 ` [PATCH] Consolidate {receive,fetch}.unpackLimit Junio C Hamano
2007-01-25 3:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-25 5:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-23 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] Allow fetch-pack to decide keeping the fetched pack without exploding Linus Torvalds
2007-01-23 16:28 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-23 16:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-23 17:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22 18:08 ` [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2 Carl Worth
2007-01-22 19:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-23 1:01 ` Carl Worth
2007-01-22 18:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano
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