Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > The last time I complained about non-pristine-tar git package repos on > IRC, I was told that pristine-tar doesn't scale. So apparently in git > usage, folks haven't worked out that the unpacked upstream source should > be tracked as a branch instead of trying to track a pristine-tar delta > against the upstream git branch directly.
What did you mean by that last sentence? I was unable to parse it. In particular, I think I don't understand the difference between "tracked as a branch" and "track a pristine-tar delta against the upstream git branch," which both sound like they mean the same thing. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
