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Re: mrtrix3 is "coming". Howto tests?



Hi Yaroslav,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 09:30:25AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 
> > > I do not think pristine-tar would work with git submodules, thus
> > > requiring a delta of the size of the testing/data .
> 
> > Pristine-tar has nothing to do with the structure of the git repository.
> 
> $> grep ls-tree /usr/bin/pristine-tar
>         "git ls-tree -r --full-name $branch | git update-index --index-info");
>       open(LIST, "git ls-tree $b --name-only | sort -Vr |");

Ahhh, that's new to me.
 
> ...
> 
> > It just stores metainformation of the orig.tar.gz you produced in a
> > separate branch to enable gbp recreating a byte-identical tarball as you
> > used to upload.
> 
> to recreate it from git tree.  Without awareness of submodules, it would need
> to keep the delta for the entire submodule tree.  Not sure if that is worth to
> breed across commits, since it would just keep adding those 16MB with every
> pristine-tar commit

Well, if you have good reasons to derive from policy (I think you gave
somehow good reasons considering your workflow ... ) please at least mention
this in debian/README.source to inform other team members.

Kind regards and thanks for working on this

     Andreas.

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