From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Geoff Russell" Subject: Applying patches in a directory that isn't a repository Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:37:31 +0930 Message-ID: <93c3eada0706282307i7a22bd27w6ca10839d36ea4eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <93c3eada0706280153w1898be80u7785ef2b2b1dd188@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: geoffrey.russell@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 29 08:07:37 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 1I49do-0000VD-Rw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:07:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751689AbXF2GHe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:07:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751622AbXF2GHe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:07:34 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.190]:61302 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750813AbXF2GHd (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:07:33 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i10so1139814mue for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:07:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q9lhVv6f78W6Vw03l/O8EX39uY0tDnOmz0Udhph3aQN4Cj9UKB2TmrNqQOYc1h5d6VEicUcFZSBOgNenX2SG+ypUY6Xa3YkRCtDv1ifABnqdCJeDn1lNSf6nvEB+HtIKLAnGdeqW5yvi9CAtujkIi3GZXR1ah6KXDFAYxHieVQ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=L2e7zUs1ugQakZ4Mxa1nSfl29ntAa+G/Wzc7pfEQMIFN8cpw2RwusT76Gr/F5A7A5rKHE3PSd2ianiPbWTgEVh/Y/m/6WJePUu4AMhszxOGoyVjn0k+/5Cz+QcZ7WyVi2zTlZuxB79K71iTf9uay0jXFF0kxbPgQVuuVrRhVNZY= Received: by 10.82.112.16 with SMTP id k16mr5487192buc.1183097251555; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.141.14 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:07:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0706280153w1898be80u7785ef2b2b1dd188@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm trying to use git for software distribution. The system is a directory of about 450mb comprising binaries, datafiles and scripts. The full repository is about 1.1gb. The users don't really need .git except when we login to pull upgrades for them. It would be nicer not to have the .git directory and just distribute patches which we would apply for our users. But "git am" needs (AFAIK) a full repository. Is there a way to apply a patch without .git being present? I can see the advantages of our users having the full repository, so maybe we should just distribute by DVD (currently we use CDs) and forget about it, but for download purposes, 450mb is nicer than 1.1gb. Cheers, Geoff Russell