From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Schlemmer Subject: Re: [git pasky] tarball question Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:09:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1114211383.27940.1.camel@nosferatu.lan> References: <1114180303.29271.25.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20050422224251.GE21204@pasky.ji.cz> Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6TdRXacUQwpiFvn5klhZ" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: GIT Mailing Lists X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 23 01:01:46 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP79V-00043Q-8s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:01:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261271AbVDVXGE (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:06:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261282AbVDVXGE (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:06:04 -0400 Received: from ctb-mesg5.saix.net ([196.25.240.77]:61431 "EHLO ctb-mesg5.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261271AbVDVXFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:05:47 -0400 Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-254-56.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.254.56]) by ctb-mesg5.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF33254D; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:05:43 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C40A3A2430; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:12:05 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02751-11; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:12:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nosferatu.lan (nosferatu.lan [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher IDEA-CBC-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA213A241A; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:11:59 +0200 (SAST) To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050422224251.GE21204@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --=-6TdRXacUQwpiFvn5klhZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 00:42 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:31:43PM CEST, I got a letter > where Martin Schlemmer told me that... > > Hi, >=20 > Hi, >=20 > > I understand why you have the git-pasky-0.6.x.tar.bz2 tarballs with > > the .git database included as well (btw, great stuff renaming it to > > something more distributable), but its going to be a pita for users of > > source based distro's like us (Gentoo), as well as our mirrors if it > > gets much bigger. (Already asked r3pek to add it to portage). >=20 > yes; that was actually the plan, it's just that my memory is so > volatile... >=20 Yep, saw before you posted about the change in URL, thanks. > > How about ripping the .git directory from the next release, and just > > have a un-numbered tarball (like you used to) that have the latest > > snapshot of the .git directory for those that want to do git-pasky > > development? Should even make things easier your side, as you could > > just do a cron to update it one a day/whatever. >=20 > Does it actually make sense to keep a tarball with history? Just build > git-pasky and do git init. (Or rsync it manually.) >=20 Well, I did not know about kernel.org hosting it, so I thought it might help due to your reasons for initially tarballing the whole thing =3D) Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-6TdRXacUQwpiFvn5klhZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCaYQ2qburzKaJYLYRAqwlAJ9if7dcIBdaniTC0GSfcAFadIxfugCdEtAX ZNXRqQrBcyBVvZAazPHF8Vw= =1/1t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6TdRXacUQwpiFvn5klhZ--