Re: how to combine two clones in a collection

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 7/10/07, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
> It does mean, however, that I duplicate the upstream into my repo,
> and thus into the published repo at git.debian.org, because I cannot
> just publish a single branch ('debian') in such a way that people
> could clone it and still be able to build the package against
> upstream (which they'd have to obtain for themselves), right?

Yes. But is that a problem? In most cases, the complete history of the
project is fairly small if your repo is well packed. Often not much
bigger than a tarball of one source snapshot.

What does the following say?

   git repack -a -d
   du -sh .git/objects/pack

cheers,


martni