On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 08:42:30PM +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > Is there already a format bump planned for 1.8? Can a format bump be > avoided? If we have to bump, how hard would it be to keep everything > working with 1.7 clients too (albeit with less features, slower XYZ > because of whatever, ...)? Seems to me that having an additional index > will not make the wc database unusable by older clients, right?
I've been working under the assumption that we'll bump the WC format before releasing 1.8. In general, it is possible to operate on a trunk working copy with a 1.7 client. However, there will be subtle issues if 1.7 and 1.8 clients are used on the same working copy. E.g. a 1.7 client might run into tree conflicts which it cannot understand because a 1.8 client flagged a conflict involving a move. I believe we should bump to avoid such problems.
