From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11131F424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2018 16:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965448AbeEIQYk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2018 12:24:40 -0400 Received: from avasout01.plus.net ([84.93.230.227]:50459 "EHLO avasout01.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965034AbeEIQYk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2018 12:24:40 -0400 Received: from [10.0.2.15] ([80.189.70.162]) by smtp with ESMTPA id GRtMf5BwSQrTpGRtOfvpoH; Wed, 09 May 2018 17:24:38 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=ZIX5Z0zb c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=zzlqjQC3YyNvDZl/Gy+4mg==:117 a=zzlqjQC3YyNvDZl/Gy+4mg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=3L1EsLzu84tvToWsA4MA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-AUTH: ramsayjones@:2500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] Add a new builtin: branch-diff To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Thomas Rast , Thomas Gummerer , =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= References: <8bc517e35d4842f8d9d98f3b99adb9475d6db2d2.1525361419.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> <71b00bbf-07e7-11e1-046b-f0241b82ebd3@ramsayjones.plus.com> <850f1ad6-752d-85ae-ebad-feae09a76c54@ramsayjones.plus.com> <019cce70-c109-496e-e043-c471dcb21e00@ramsayjones.plus.com> From: Ramsay Jones Message-ID: <8876f376-db86-c3e1-b97d-9e33506f2df2@ramsayjones.plus.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 17:24:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfD3kBFno7aU2Ku/pygRlauavQpYrCLyYHKQD9jWWTaoZ206fCppJJtUxW5t4Fkb0VUPQEBVvWr4sLGEFXqMbD3cbJwxWnvM6yF/8K/9VpV9P4nR7kl3t DhdO9Um3SLCTIARe7jZR/szlAbLl3xMNQ9hWnec1pFl/Idv7A4ik9854 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 05/05/18 20:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote: [snip] [Sorry for the late reply - still catching up after (long weekend) UK public holiday] > Well, what I would want to do is let the cloud work for me. By adding an > automated build to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account, of > course, as I have "cloud privilege" (i.e. I work in the organization > providing the service, so I get to play with all of it for free). > > So I really don't want to build sparse every time a new revision needs to > be tested (whether that be from one of my branches, an internal PR for > pre-review of patches to be sent to the mailing list, or maybe even `pu` > or the personalized branches on https://github.com/gitster/git). > > I really would need a ready-to-install sparse, preferably as light-weight > as possible (by not requiring any dependencies outside what is available > in VSTS' hosted Linux build agents. > > Maybe there is a specific apt source for sparse? Not that I'm aware of, sorry! :( [release _source_ tar-balls are available, but that's not what you are after, right?] I don't know what is involved in setting up a 'ppa repo' for Ubuntu, which I suspect is the kind of thing you want, but it would have helped me several times in the past (so that I could have something to point people to) ... ;-) ATB, Ramsay Jones