On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 01:39:54PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > You don't have to clone anything. If all you want is a tarball, use > 'git archive --remote'.
Thanks, I didn't know about this feature. Is the tarball generation "stable" across Git releases? Or is it subject to change? We had this issue with Git archive creation in the past. > Is it correct to assume that they have never reached you? Would you > like to have a look and let me know whether they make sense to you? I'd > be glad to dig them up and share them with you, if so, and to take your > feedback towards making them available to the public at large. Personally, as a non-maintainer, I'd prefer to preserve the status quo of our linux-libre packaging. If the maintainers decide that it should be changed, I'll follow their decision.