[LUCENE-2080] Improve the documentation of Version

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.2, 3.0, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: general/javadocs
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Robert Muir
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 18/Nov/09 15:36
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:14
• Resolved: 11/Feb/10 14:36

Description

In my opinion, we should elaborate more on the effects of changing the Version parameter.
Particularly, changing this value, even if you recompile your code, likely involves reindexing your data.
I do not think this is adequately clear from the current javadocs.