From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D0B1F4B4 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726528AbgIST3A (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:29:00 -0400 Received: from injection.crustytoothpaste.net ([192.241.140.119]:34544 "EHLO injection.crustytoothpaste.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726511AbgIST3A (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:29:00 -0400 Received: from camp.crustytoothpaste.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:b978:101:b610:a2f0:36c1:12e3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by injection.crustytoothpaste.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 868C760459; Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:28:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=crustytoothpaste.net; s=default; t=1600543738; bh=d8+7OfSW686jbNqntTrCiAYSvs2/K3eG9OKgoWfAnyA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Content-Type: Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:From:Reply-To:Subject:Date:To:CC: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:Content-Disposition; b=ksj1JZNPnEdzwC2Ypy1oAOtI3Qm+8Uzvjr6mEuSzEycW8pAwATu/BnQJJVdeEtJu3 4POp1d4d9mjcwxz4DjZBYM/CnzDydKmVR/zvmvSxlzatAHCu/3T/vSebJ6V1xJo9sa 3sorgKsgsNx5IZ3QV60u8lJja2/8d6Su+cpQ4VI+zvjSspqrOUABj1BNSZRhWLq39z rvneVSpIiKW17NQC5sEC+XEdLWmZUfD03m3o6OEYexmXRM2N0aejSfo8d+rpsC4PsY ojc3DvNE9bKLqbBcriQ6OQJL1kT3O9xDrPmlokYFAa2oEDcIeDpmFsTzaFkMAXhL95 +03m8jeG6beP93nqROm7VqVNNjOTTLsX+8frIW7TWoL7GYiPboZ/0o34VnpVK5MT5q P8f35PcNleWMq6JEsqig05C70EQZKPkTERO3ENnsIsCAo1NBlvP5V7pfeP3GXmoY9Z 3pVAsJ7vhAMzyvz/8obj/wJGOuDYdcGGx8NhEh+myOFdZk9zPqG Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:28:52 +0000 From: "brian m. carlson" To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?Gr=C3=BCnbacher?= Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Apply git bundle to source tree? Message-ID: <20200919192852.GG67496@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> Mail-Followup-To: "brian m. carlson" , Andreas =?utf-8?Q?Gr=C3=BCnbacher?= , Konstantin Ryabitsev , Git Mailing List References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PpAOPzA3dXsRhoo+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.6 (2020-07-11) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --PpAOPzA3dXsRhoo+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2020-09-18 at 21:45:01, Andreas Gr=C3=BCnbacher wrote: > What I had in mind were actually distro packages: most projects > nowadays live somewhere in git repositories. When they're packaged, > this usually results in a source package with a diff on top of a > baseline release, so the commit history is lost. Friendly packagers > include the commit hashes and point users to a suitable git > repository, but that's not enforced or consistent. Including the > actual git history in packages would be much nicer (i.e., a git > bundle), but if that can't replace the patch as well, it's rather > unlikely to happen. Debian considered using Git as part of the 3.0 (git) format, but the problem with that is that some upstreams include non-free or undistributable material in their repositories, and obviously Debian can't distribute such software in main. Tarballs can be repacked, but it's harder to rewrite Git history to exclude objects. I do think the idea is cool and it would be a neat application, but distributing the source history of an upstream project is tricky for for packagers for practical reasons. --=20 brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US --PpAOPzA3dXsRhoo+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.2.20 (GNU/Linux) iHUEABYKAB0WIQQILOaKnbxl+4PRw5F8DEliiIeigQUCX2Zb9AAKCRB8DEliiIei gTHmAP9DZDpz1GGLiNfQaWSpHf40o0E+DaXNVBslpLW1Ez5h7AD/WzDlAsnIhHt0 hLT9i7gEuWEN/Cx3G0uZKe2hki0i1QU= =KAx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PpAOPzA3dXsRhoo+--