On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/09/15 10:42, David Manouchehri wrote: > > For sharing/keeping source packages, is there any reason not to include > > .git/ if it's present when creating a .src.tar*? > > > > I know a fair amount of Arch devs are on SVN, so it would definitely need > > to be optional. > > > > Size. Private stuff in .git. > > And git repos are better distributed in other ways. > > A > Regarding size, hopefully people aren't tracking binaries to begin with. Compressed text files shouldn't be huge. What private information would be in .git/? Clearing the cache should prevent that if it's a concern. I agree that there's better ways to share Git projects, but I've never been in a situation where I wish I *didn't* have a package's version history.
