On 19/10/2012 11:16, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> 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. >
I think he meant running pristine-tar commit with tarballs on upstream branches that share history with the upstream VCS repository, rather than the upstream branch that git import-orig maintains. But there shouldn't really be an issue with this kind of usage either -- I've used pristine-tar with upstream VCS branches before for storing release tarballs. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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