From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make dist: allow using an installed version of git
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:34:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472762079.4680.44.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4m5zy0qd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On do, 2016-09-01 at 10:43 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
>
> > b1de9de2 back in 2005 ensured that we could create a tarball with 'make
> > dist' even if git wasn't installed yet. These days however, chances are
> > higher that a git version is available. Add a config.mak knob to allow
> > people to choose to use the installed version of git to create the
> > tarball and avoid the overhead of building git-archive.
>
> Thanks, but not interested.
Pity. Would save me quite a bit of tarball build time.
> We do not know what vintage of "git" happens to be installed on the
> platform, but we know how "git archive" we ship with the source
> ought to behave.
That's why I didn't want to make it the default, but merely make it an
available option for saving some build time for people who know their
git is up-to-date enough.
D.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-27 10:29 [PATCH] make dist: allow using an installed version of git Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-09-01 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 20:34 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
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