Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > I get annoyed by the "ignoring unknown extension xxx" messages while > testing though (not just this extension) and I think it will be the > same for other git implementations. But perhaps other implementations > just silently drop the extension. Most of the extensions we have added > so far (except the ancient 'TREE') are optional and are probably not
Most of the index extensions are optional, including TREE. I think "link" is the only one that the readers that do not understand it are told to abort without causing damage. > present 99% of time when a different git impl reads an index created > by C Git. This 'EIOE' may be a good test then to see if they follow > the "ignore optional extensions" rule since it will always appear in > new C Git releases. I think we probably should squelch "ignoring unknown" unless some sort of GIT_TRACE/DEBUG switch is set. Patches welcome ;-) Thanks.
