From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 21:51:02 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2016, #04; Wed, 23)
Message-ID: <xmqqfuvf7dfd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <171B6E119FCF4E5CBF2831F6A7A004EA@PhilipOakley>

"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> 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.