Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> Whether git.d.o is up or not does not help me if I'm at the end of tiny
> link. Also, if we go with my claim that source (in the «preferred form
> for modification» sense) includes history, it means you need to ship the
> history somehow. Saying «it's on git.d.o» doesn't help you then. The
> suggestion to use a bundle would probably be a good enough start. I'd
> like to be able to just apt-get source foo ; cd foo-* ; git log though,
> but having to git clone the bundle is something I guess I can live with.
I think a full implementation of a 3.0 (git) format that uses bundles
would include support in dpkg-source, so that when you unpack a 3.0 (git)
package (such as with apt-get source), dpkg-source would take care of
setting up the Git repository from the bundle for you. This is similar to
how dpkg-source handles applying patches in 3.0 (quilt) packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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