Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> writes:

> ]] Joey Hess 

> | I support changing 3.0 (git) to use a bundle. Besides closing the bugs
> | mentioned in this thread, a bundle consists of a simple header + a
> | standard git pack. Since git packs are used as a wire format, this
> | provides better assurance that future versions of git will retain
> | compatability with the source packages. Also, being able to directly
> | clone a bundle file is a great feature.

> Just to be sure: Bundles can include multiple branches, tags and all,
> right?

Yup!  They're quite nice.  I only discovered them recently, but they're
also fantastic for sharing pending security patches that cannot yet be
publicly disclosed among the co-maintainers of a package.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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