From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [git pasky] tarball question Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:23:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20050422182353.GA599@kroah.com> References: <1114180303.29271.25.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GIT Mailing Lists , Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 22 20:20:26 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP2kz-0004uQ-5Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:20:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262103AbVDVSYS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262104AbVDVSYS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:18 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:12699 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262103AbVDVSYP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-118-199.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.118.199]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3MIO8i01039; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:24:08 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1DP2oj-09t-00; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:23:53 -0700 To: Martin Schlemmer Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114180303.29271.25.camel@nosferatu.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > Hi, > > 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). Ah good, I was already makeing a ebuild for it, I'll let others do it then :) > 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. Why? The .git directory doesn't hurt anything that gentoo would do, we would just update the ebuild for the major releases. thanks, greg k-h