[Monotone-devel] version skew

[hendrik]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:27:45AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:35 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've upgraded both their monotones to currently distributed Debian
> > packages, and now one is mtn 0.45 and the other is mtn 0.40.   Are these
> > compatible when they act on the mtn database directly?  I remember
> > there was some incompatibility around that time and I thank you for
> > making new versions network-compatible with old.  But am I likely to run
> > into trouble if I handle a monotone database with 0.45 and later reboot to
> > stable and try to touch it with monotone 0.40?
> 
> Unfortunately, there were several schema updates in between 0.40 and
> 0.45.  The first time you touch the database with 0.45 it will ask you
> to migrate the schema, and after you do that, 0.40 will not be able to
> read it.

That's what I thought.  I'll have to migrate carefully, then. 

-- hendrik

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