Re: [PATCH] git-bundle - bundle objects and references for disconnected transfer.

From: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Date: Feb 16, 2007, 00:12 UTC
Message-ID: <45D4F6D4.9070703@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702151629130.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Why not force unmixing? I.e. first the options for git-bundle, _then_ the 
> rest? (In that case, you would leave out the "-*)" clause).
>

This would just trade one usability issue for another.

> It does not have to be tar. There is no good reason that the parts you put 
> into the bundle have to be files, rather than header and body.
>

sh does not handle binary files: there is no way to split header from binary payload.

Mark

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