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Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs)

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Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org>
Date
Nov 7, 2011, 22:03 UTC
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On 07/11/11 21:49, Jakub Narebski wrote:
[snip]
> But now I understand that you are just building tree objects, and
> creating references to them (with implicit ordering given by names,
> I guess).  This is to be a start of further work, isn't it?
Yes, that's exactly the point, and my apologies if I was not clear enough.

I'll post again when I've finished the script and performed placed several years of DVD into git. Then the discussion will be more concrete - we have this tree, how do we make it more useful.

Thank you for your contributions, particularly telling me about gitpan.
-- 
Jonathan
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