Re: [Monotone-devel] a little status update

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:14PM -0600, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:24:22PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > Now that I've gotten everyone nice and scared :-) -- it's probably not
> > that bad; the worst case scenario is that 0.16 would have to have
> > another 0.15-style migration, that might lose rename information and
> > some trust information.  But any garbage data is all in Monotone's
> > internal bookkeeping structures (and not the most critical parts of
> > those, either); your data is still safe.
> 
> Does the above migration mean that 0.16 will only convert from 0.15
> style databases to 0.16 style database?  Or will there be options for
> a 0.14 -> 0.16 conversion as well?  Some of us (crazy, I know) are
> holding off on upgrading our 0.1x monotone variants until some of
> the dust settles from the changeset rewrite.

Note that the above is a "worst-case scenario" -- I don't even know
that there will be a need for such a migration.

If there is, though, then I'm sure we'll have some way to get from
0.14 to 0.16.

-- Nathaniel

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