On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 17:58 +1100, Joey Hess wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Maybe I forgot the answer, but at least in terms of git and the dpkg > > > 3.0 (git) format, why can't we simply make use of shallow cloning? > > > > At which point you have lost all the advantages of shipping the > > repository that Tollef mentioned, as far as I can tell. You're back to > > needing an external repository that's kept up to date if you ever need > > to get at the history. > > You can shallow clone at depth one each ref in the repository, which gets you > all tags (filter to released versions to avoid needing any further license > review).
Is it also possible to say "everything in branch A which isn't in branch B", so that you could include everything from the "debian" branch but not the "upstream" branch? That might be useful when you aren't 100% certain of the DFSG freeness of the upstream history, whereas you might well be happy that the versions incorporated into the debian branch were ok. Also, I wonder if it is possible to arrange that having unpacked a git format source package that the remotes for debian and upstream are already prepopulated in the repo such that "git remotes update" would fetch all of the missing history without having to "git remotes add etc". Ian. -- Ian Campbell In Newark the laundromats are open 24 hours a day! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
