Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> ]] Joey Hess
> | I support changing 3.0 (git) to use a bundle. Besides closing the bugs
> | mentioned in this thread, a bundle consists of a simple header + a
> | standard git pack. Since git packs are used as a wire format, this
> | provides better assurance that future versions of git will retain
> | compatability with the source packages. Also, being able to directly
> | clone a bundle file is a great feature.
> Just to be sure: Bundles can include multiple branches, tags and all,
> right?
Yup! They're quite nice. I only discovered them recently, but they're
also fantastic for sharing pending security patches that cannot yet be
publicly disclosed among the co-maintainers of a package.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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