Re: Scripts to use "bundles" for moving data between repositories

From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <45D37DF0.70708@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhctopqkw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Also we _might_ want to uuencode (or base85) so that you can
> even e-mail a bundle easily.
>
> I am 75% kidding ;-).
>

Wouldn't such encoding more logically be a part of whatever is used for the transport? My experience (other than emailing patches to the git list :-[ ) in this area is that encode / decode of attachments is handled transparently by email clients. My email programs (including command line scripts) all know how to mime encode / decode arbitrary attachments, so I at least would gain nothing by such encoding.

Mark

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