From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: how to combine two clones in a collection Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:11 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90707100051l5f226799sa8f3231b1c096722@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070709222250.GA8007@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> <20070710062104.GA22603@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "git discussion list" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 10 09:51:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8AV9-0000o3-Kp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:51:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754515AbXGJHvN (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752916AbXGJHvN (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:51:13 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]:40100 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751490AbXGJHvM (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:51:12 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1122930wxd for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:51:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nyGhcjVA6JCUU/iFXwY/MWRbK0KXYrhPVJ8cykd3UtZejTGJ72ldz6boydzRlL0uIDEUNlpUiO1DUNS1PqQhl3ex7CnY3NJME6iBtSl98UKABSK1T1LWE2Whx69qd3G8IROmbY8mw6YaxRVsf7kgvppRKpwzQLvVzM/MY0QeMw4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AvsqaJUhz8dMwYWqG+F8JP7mh16xr35POUto5Nh1FCL0mRiotrmZ8NdbdG9IJdYOyYQBCa49EBHnXI1ksyVk22gFTtJ9qZgQL+dOevZV9vh32H1lyFKmcauTWKGD1PpSKz8uoPVdNXUUhcm6FnbIUdFTrk9LhBG22DGGHo0lQzY= Received: by 10.90.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr2628341agb.1184053871538; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.52.9 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:51:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070710062104.GA22603@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/10/07, martin f krafft 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