From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprpwhp7t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vlk0ffhw3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzf1w0rj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabgqsc37.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzetjbif.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzlokhpk7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Gerrit Pape X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 14 19:55:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KISGu-00089S-TN for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:55:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752415AbYGNRyh (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753888AbYGNRyg (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:36 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:56116 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752352AbYGNRyg (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:36 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.131.194.97]) by VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0K4000EQACEZ8RE0@VL-MO-MR004.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:35 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper bound for > > > backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian stable. It gets > > > probably the most stale from all the widely used software distributions > > > using Git, and it *is* quite widely used. Etch carries v1.4.4.4, which > > > fails miserably on the new packs. > > > > Can't we just hit Debian's Git maintainer with a clue bat or a bus, > > Please don't. It wouldn't help, rather the opposite I think, espacially > the bus. We don't introduce new upstream versions into a Debian stable > release, there's a great effort done for each stable release to reach > high quality integration of all the software packages available in > Debian. Once that status is reached, only security fixes and criticial > usability fixes are added. Please consider it as a critical usability problem. Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2? That wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it. Nicolas