Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On 08/16/2014 03:53 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> The alternative is handwaving and ignoring the fact that your package
>> repository is not a complete representation of your package as it exists in
>> the archive.
>
> What's wrong with storing the upstream tarballs themselves on a separate
> branch, if you're that desperate to have them inside the same git repo as
> the code?
That would be a waste of space, especially for large tarballs. Even for large
upstream sources storing the pristine tar delta only takes a very small amount
of space compared to what is needed to store the original tarball.
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