On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> 
> Git older than version 1.5.2 (or any other git version with this option
> set to 1) may revert to version 1 of the pack index by manually deleting
> all .idx files and recreating them using 'git index-pack'.  Communication
> over the git native protocol is unaffected since the pack index is never
> transferred.

Rather than talk about when it does _not_ matter, wouldn't it be better to 
talk about when it _can_ matter?

Namely when using dumb protocols, either http or rsync, with the other end 
being some ancient git thing (and it is worth mentioning version of what 
counts as 'ancient' too, I can't remember, probably means that pretty much 
nobody else can either).

		Linus
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