git-annex/doc/design/v6/comment_1_b7b4819211910556838ec37bc2b6b37b._comment
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U 8839c23f5b Added a comment
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nickname="Richard"
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date="2015-01-22T01:05:56Z"
content="""
My gut feeling for incompatible changes in v6 is to somehow make v5 and below error out on all merges with a v6 repo.
Conversely, v6 git-annex running in v6 repos would transition all data while merging in v5 repos.
As a migration path for existing repos, you could move `git-annex` and `master` to `git-annex_v5` and `master_v5`. Once you are certain all known repos within that repo group are transitioned, either kill the v5 branches automagically or print info on cli/web UI on what needs to be run to get rid of them.
Having several plain git 1+ GiB repos (i.e. without any annex objects), I would love to transition after v6 and the migration paths have been hung a month or three to dry.
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