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Re: git bundle magic, and other questions

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 24, 2007, 11:17 UTC
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<20071124111732.GA2948@steel.home>
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Jakub Narebski, Sat, Nov 24, 2007 00:33:54 +0100:
> Do there exists some agreed upon common extension for git-bundle, or is 
> it just *.bundle (like *.patch)? Do bundles use some magic identifier;
> can I add something (and what) to the 'magic' file, so "file <bundle>"
> would return "git bundle data" (or equivalent)?
Look into bundle.c:
    static const char bundle_signature[] = "# v2 git bundle\n";
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