Re: [git pasky] tarball question

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20050422224251.GE21204@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1114180303.29271.25.camel@nosferatu.lan>

Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:31:43PM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> told me that...

> Hi,

Hi,

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> I understand why you have the git-pasky-0.6.x.tar.bz2 tarballs with
> the .git database included as well (btw, great stuff renaming it to
> something more distributable), but its going to be a pita for users of
> source based distro's like us (Gentoo), as well as our mirrors if it
> gets much bigger. (Already asked r3pek to add it to portage).

yes; that was actually the plan, it's just that my memory is so volatile...

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> How about ripping the .git directory from the next release, and just
> have a un-numbered tarball (like you used to) that have the latest
> snapshot of the .git directory for those that want to do git-pasky
> development?  Should even make things easier your side, as you could
> just do a cron to update it one a day/whatever.

Does it actually make sense to keep a tarball with history? Just build git-pasky and do git init. (Or rsync it manually.)

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