Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > But it would mean that you cannot naively run > > echo $sha1 >.git/refs/heads/foo > > anymore. I suspect that the packed-refs conversion rooted out many > scripts that did not use update-ref and rev-parse to access refs, but > the above does still work today. So I suspect there would be some > fallout. Not to mention that older versions of git would be completely > broken, which would mean we need a lengthy deprecation period while > everybody upgrades to versions of git that support the reading side.
We have that "core.repositoryversion" thing, so we could treat it just like "update-index --index-version 4" to make it a "flag day event for each repository, on the day of end-user's choice". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
