Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > As Charles wrote, pristine-tar works with small tarballs, but when > upstream has multi-megabytes tarballs and releases often, the Git > repository quickly grows to something not manageable.
This does not match my experience at all. I have packaged software like that with pristine-tar, and the pristine-tar branch is still quite small. > Yes, that's a problem. Though it's easy to download what's been > previously uploaded to Debian before the final upload. At least easier > than downloading 293874 old copies of past released tarball in the > pristine-tar branch. You realize that pristine-tar only stores references and a small delta, and does not store copies of the tarball, right? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k367xbtd....@hope.eyrie.org
