[ Taking this to debian-dpkg, the ftp.debian.org bug report is not the place to discuss this ]
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > What git version? Git repositories do not have a version number. The version of the software called "git" (we have nothing better to identify the internal format AFAIK). > > so that if Git's internal format changes in some incompatible way > > it's possible to identify which source package use the old format. > > If git's "internal" (aka "external") format changes in some incompatible > way, then every published git repo on the internet will be broken. If the internal format changes, I expect that git will upgrade it in place or something similar. However a source package published in a given release is a git repository that nobody use and will thus never be upgraded to a newer format. And after some time, we'll have lost the ability to extract older source packages. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
