On 9/8/07, Mark Phippard <markphip@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/07, David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net> wrote:
> > On 8/30/07, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> > > I recently reviewed all the remaining sparse directories stuff. The
> > > quick summary:
> > >
> > > For one programmer, it would be about 2-4 weeks of work. Luckily,
> > > it's very parallelizeable, so as long as we coordinate, we can
> > > systematically mop this stuff up. Also, some things can maybe be
> > > deferred to after 1.5; not everything on the list is a showstopper.
> > >
> > > The detailed version:
> > >
> > > Here's a rundown on all the issues. (I'm currently finishing #2882
> > > ['make commit --depth work'], and intend to spend some parallel time
> > > on #2846. I'll start on #2844 right after that, which overlaps with
> > > some of the other issues.)
> > >
> > > Please post if there's anything important not on this list:
> >
> > Backwards-compatibility testing! My initial efforts in July revealed
> > some serious bugs (which we fixed); unfortunately, I got busy
> > finishing my thesis and moving to San Francisco and haven't finished
> > new-client-old-server test infrastructure, but given the bugs we
> > already found, I would be incredibly uncomfortable releasing 1.5
> > without a way to automatically verify behavior of old clients with new
> > servers and vice versa.
>
> While I have not done any formal testing, I have used the 1.5 merge
> code a lot with tigris.org servers as the back-end (which are running
> 1.3) and I have not ran into any problems.
Yeah, I am more concerned about --depth here than the other 1.5 features.
--dave
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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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Received on Sat Sep 8 22:34:21 2007