On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 02:39:37 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday 13. July 2010 07.38.23 Chani wrote: > > personally I think it'd be nicest if all the user had to do was download > > something and unzip it - but I'll leave such things up to the sysadmins. > > Just like the current SVN case, we don't want to *just* unpack the tarball. > If that's all that the user has to do, that means the user has just > downloaded way more than was necessary -- about 100% more with SVN or > something similar with Git. > > After unpacking, there has to be some operation to restore the checkout > from the repository data.
I'll note that kdesrc-build already does this for Subversion initial checkouts. (At least I think it still does, I haven't done an svn co in awhile :P) I contributed a README for the svn nightly tarballs and even an unpacking script included with it IIRC, so we could do something similar for git modules. Regards, - Michael Pyne
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