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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-11-05 16:42:59 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-11-05 17:05:03 -0400
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v5 for direct mode, with automatic upgrade
This includes storing the current state of the HEAD ref, which git annex sync is going to need, but does not make sync use it.
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## Upgrade events, so far
+### v4 -> v5 (git-annex version 5.x)
+
+v5 is only used for [[direct_mode]]. The upgrade from v4 to v5 is handled
+automatically.
+
+This upgrade involves changing direct mode repositories to operate with
+core.bare=true.
+
### v3 -> v4 (git-annex version 4.x)
-v4 is only used for [[direct_mode]], and no upgrade needs to be done from
-existing v3 repositories, they will continue to work.
+v4 was only used for [[direct_mode]], to ensure that a version of git-annex
+that understands direct mode was used with a direct mode repository.
### v2 -> v3 (git-annex version 3.x)