Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:
> As Charles wrote, pristine-tar works with small tarballs, but when
> upstream has multi-megabytes tarballs and releases often, the Git
> repository quickly grows to something not manageable.
This does not match my experience at all. I have packaged software like
that with pristine-tar, and the pristine-tar branch is still quite small.
> Yes, that's a problem. Though it's easy to download what's been
> previously uploaded to Debian before the final upload. At least easier
> than downloading 293874 old copies of past released tarball in the
> pristine-tar branch.
You realize that pristine-tar only stores references and a small delta,
and does not store copies of the tarball, right?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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