From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:51:11 GMT
Subject: Re: how to combine two clones in a collection
Message-ID: <46a038f90707100051l5f226799sa8f3231b1c096722@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070710062104.GA22603@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

On 7/10/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> It does mean, however, that I duplicate the upstream into my repo,
> and thus into the published repo at git.debian.org, because I cannot
> just publish a single branch ('debian') in such a way that people
> could clone it and still be able to build the package against
> upstream (which they'd have to obtain for themselves), right?

Yes. But is that a problem? In most cases, the complete history of the
project is fairly small if your repo is well packed. Often not much
bigger than a tarball of one source snapshot.

What does the following say?

   git repack -a -d
   du -sh .git/objects/pack

cheers,


martni