On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gumme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > since index-v5 didn't seem to generate enough interest to be merged, I
I thought there were some comments last time that you were going to address and resubmit? > have a few patches that give users users easier access to index-v4. > Until now users have to go into the source code and compile git > themselves to use index-v4 by default, or use git-update-index to > change the index file to the new version. Not objecting this, but I think something like [1] would give v4 more exposure. Reading the patch again, I think putting that detection code in unpack_trees() or git-merge may make more sense because people will be advised about upgrading to v4 at the next fast-forward. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/216307 > With this patches it's possible to set the default index file format > either in gitconfig or in an environment variable. It also simplifies > testing index-v4 by adding a Makefile knob to use it for running the > test suite. For safety, existing repositories are not changed when > the environment or the config variables are set. > > I'm not sure about the precedence in patch 3, right now the environment > variable has precedence, but it should be easy to give the config > option precedence over that. > > Thomas Gummerer (3): > introduce GIT_INDEX_VERSION environment variable > test-lib: allow setting the index format version > read-cache: add index.version config variable > > Documentation/config.txt | 4 +++ > Documentation/git.txt | 5 ++++ > Makefile | 7 +++++ > read-cache.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++- > t/t1600-index.sh | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > t/t2104-update-index-skip-worktree.sh | 2 ++ > t/test-lib-functions.sh | 5 ++++ > t/test-lib.sh | 3 ++ > 8 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100755 t/t1600-index.sh > > -- > 1.8.3.2 > > -- > 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 -- Duy -- 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
