Re: Apply git bundle to source tree?

From: Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2020, 21:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHpGcMJy=0deaByZ=jXHRiHgHH7utHc0JTG=BMq9Yf1DOKvuGw@mail.gmail.com>
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Am Fr., 18. Sept. 2020 um 22:18 Uhr schrieb Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>:

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> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14, Andreas Grünbacher
> <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's a way to apply a particular head in a bundle
> > to a source tree, for example:
> >
> >   $ git bundle create v5.9-rc1.bundle v5.8..v5.9-rc1
> >   $ cd linux-5.8
> >   $ git bundle APPLY ../5.9-rc1.bundle v5.9-rc1
>
> I know this is not what you are asking, but since you used the kernel
> as your example, you can use the following to achieve the result
> you're looking for:
> curl --header 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' -L
> https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/p/v5.9-rc1/v5.8 | gunzip - | git apply

Oh, that's neat.

What I had in mind were actually distro packages: most projects nowadays live somewhere in git repositories. When they're packaged, this usually results in a source package with a diff on top of a baseline release, so the commit history is lost. Friendly packagers include the commit hashes and point users to a suitable git repository, but that's not enforced or consistent. Including the actual git history in packages would be much nicer (i.e., a git bundle), but if that can't replace the patch as well, it's rather unlikely to happen.

Thanks, Andreas