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diff --git a/doc/bugs/uninit_does_not_work_in_old_repos.mdwn b/doc/bugs/uninit_does_not_work_in_old_repos.mdwn index a6f785863..1e1b1fec7 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/uninit_does_not_work_in_old_repos.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/uninit_does_not_work_in_old_repos.mdwn @@ -4,3 +4,12 @@ As uninit does not need to actually write out any data, just remove it, it shoul git-annex: Repository version 2 is not supported. Upgrade this repository: git-annex upgrade If the repo happens to be broken, this essentially locks in data. + +> No, because you can always check out the version of git-annex you need +> for that repository. +> +> uninit, as implemented, runs unannex on every file and then does some +> cleanup. The cleanup does not need to write state, but the unannex does. +> And it depends on the object directory layout, which has changed between +> versions. So supporting old versions in this code would complicate it +> quite a lot. I don't want to go there. --[[Joey]] |