Re: [PATCH 02/18] Add a new builtin: branch-diff

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date: May 9, 2018, 16:24 UTC
Message-ID: <8876f376-db86-c3e1-b97d-9e33506f2df2@ramsayjones.plus.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1805052130360.77@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

On 05/05/18 20:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote: [snip]

[Sorry for the late reply - still catching up after (long weekend) UK public holiday]

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> Well, what I would want to do is let the cloud work for me. By adding an
> automated build to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account, of
> course, as I have "cloud privilege" (i.e. I work in the organization
> providing the service, so I get to play with all of it for free).
> 
> So I really don't want to build sparse every time a new revision needs to
> be tested (whether that be from one of my branches, an internal PR for
> pre-review of patches to be sent to the mailing list, or maybe even `pu`
> or the personalized branches on https://github.com/gitster/git).
> 
> I really would need a ready-to-install sparse, preferably as light-weight
> as possible (by not requiring any dependencies outside what is available
> in VSTS' hosted Linux build agents.
> 
> Maybe there is a specific apt source for sparse?

Not that I'm aware of, sorry! :(

[release _source_ tar-balls are available, but that's not what you are after, right?]

I don't know what is involved in setting up a 'ppa repo' for Ubuntu, which I suspect is the kind of thing you want, but it would have helped me several times in the past (so that I could have something to point people to) ... ;-)

ATB, Ramsay Jones