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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt index 417ba491d0..34396f13ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt @@ -116,10 +116,15 @@ Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt) with extensions objectFormat = newhash compatObjectFormat = sha1 -Specifying a repository format extension ensures that versions of Git -not aware of NewHash do not try to operate on these repositories, -instead producing an error message: +The combination of setting `core.repositoryFormatVersion=1` and +populating `extensions.*` ensures that all versions of Git later than +`v0.99.9l` will die instead of trying to operate on the NewHash +repository, instead producing an error message. + # Between v0.99.9l and v2.7.0 + $ git status + fatal: Expected git repo version <= 0, found 1 + # After v2.7.0 $ git status fatal: unknown repository extensions found: objectformat |