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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2016, #04; Wed, 23)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 24, 2016, 21:51 UTC
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"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
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> This was just clarifying that if a variant of the bundle format (#
> V3?) was used, that it must, if the name was retained(*), still work
> as a sneakernet transfer option. In that case the user would need to
> be told, or be able to find out via (e.g.) the 'verify' sub-command,
> where the other half of the split bundle (the pack) was located so
> that both halves could be copied for sneakernet transfer.

I was sort-of expecting that users are intelligent enough to not even imagine to use split-bundle for sneakernetting, as it would be obvious that there is no upside for doing so.

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