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Re: gitpacker progress report and a question

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 15, 2012, 23:05 UTC
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Max Horn <postbox@quendi.de>:
> > I'm still looking for a better name for it and would welcome suggestions.
> 
> Isn't "gitar" the kind of natural choice? ;) At least for a stand-alone tool, not for a git subcommand.

I just renamed it git-weave. I keep talking about tarballs because I keep thinking about using it archeologically on projects that only exist as tarball sequences, but the tool actually oacks and unpacks *file tree* sequences.

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