On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 04:20:34PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > 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. Only if you're lacking a proper branch that represents the unpacked upstream source including autogenerated files. It is certainly possible to use pristine-tar wrong. If using it right, the deltas are very small. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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