From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: "git archve --format=tar" output changed from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2.1 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:16:27 -0800 Message-ID: <7vr4l1gqv8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20130131172805.GC16593@kroah.com> <7vzjzpgswz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130131174103.GA20111@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rene Scharfe , git@vger.kernel.org, Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Greg KH X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 31 19:16:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U0ygu-0000zd-UL for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:16:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752977Ab3AaSQb (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:31 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:47550 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751523Ab3AaSQa (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B7BCF8B; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:29 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=/+AAQptiZBlEBmecnL8VXRx8FhU=; b=O3rcTZ cf4WRjbSe10CqigbEYutUMP2AmQPASmHteB2UoS9RBvUWJPgKjmmb5ag0IwHsBgs K89Vqq5NVwIB24OfjvKk/rsm5s3HcYROUq/LpO+RwycHxLnpTX9+ut2XXqLNqVxZ W6cfvStZMYnpUMBGS4zg1o4ofx3d5XygPFyNw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=I7YPnNWRmBmjk1UZAv8ykSgbWWPp46D4 KjnZdwojnFJD1lfE+B1itWUqiSWdx5HQyQxt39uOSoq1cOS4OMQ9Z7LU9GzFDMs/ 2IB7GERI7dSLs5Jw421kvuctCSeQvjR6a0B+m+oaiAH/L4zUBkqy8gf7bFWSoNLZ uyvj+3+OQ2A= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BE9CF80; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC892CF7E; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20130131174103.GA20111@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:41:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 55089DC4-6BD2-11E2-869D-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Greg KH writes: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:32:12AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> How about fixing kup to teach the "let's cheat and let the other end >> run 'git archive', if the resulting archive and GPG signature >> locally created does match, we do not have to transfer the tarball >> itself" trick a fall-back mode that says "but if the signature does >> not match, then transfer the bulk used to create the signature to >> the remote anyway". This fallback can and should of course be >> useful for the compressed patch transfer. > > Ugh, uploading a 431Mb file, over a flaky wireless connection (I end up > doing lots of kernel releases while traveling), would be a horrible > change. I'd rather just keep using the same older version of git that > kernel.org is running instead. Then how about fixing kup to try both versions of Git? There will be people who run different versions of Git anyway, and kup should not be preventing Git from helping people on other platforms, or improving its output in general.