Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Nicolas George in gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel (Wed, 3 Aug 2016 01:22:18 +0200): >Actually, I was talking about snapshots generated by gitweb. I realize now >that the snapshot we are talking are generated differently, and they contain >a full pack of the .git directory. That makes them roughly

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:41:09PM +, Timothy Gu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:10 PM Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Jan Ehrhardt a écrit : > > > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > > > doing a git clone > > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 17 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Carl Eugen Hoyos a écrit : > This would be a bug. No, that would be an inherent limitation of the snapshots: they do not contain anything that can give an accurate version. Actually, I was talking about snapshots generated by gitweb. I realize now that the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Hi! 2016-08-03 0:09 GMT+02:00 Nicolas George : > IIRC, one of the minor perks of doing that is that the version > script will give a more useful version tag. This would be a bug. Carl Eugen ___ ffmpeg-devel mailing list

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Timothy Gu a écrit : > In addition, https://git.ffmpeg.org doesn't seem to support --depth. git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg (i.e. the videolan server) does. It would probably be better if our server did too, but I do not know how. > $ time git clone --depth=1

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Timothy Gu
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:10 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Jan Ehrhardt a écrit : > > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > > doing a git clone > > I suggest you consider doing a shallow clone (--depth 1). It should

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Nicolas George
Le sextidi 16 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Jan Ehrhardt a écrit : > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > doing a git clone I suggest you consider doing a shallow clone (--depth 1). It should take roughly the same time as getting and unpacking a snapshot. IIRC, one of the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Jan Ehrhardt wrote: > I have a script that cross-compiles ffmpeg on Ubuntu for Windows. > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > doing a git clone the script uses > http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot-git.tar.bz2 > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Timothy Gu
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:54 PM Jan Ehrhardt wrote: > I have a script that cross-compiles ffmpeg on Ubuntu for Windows. > Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than > doing a git clone the script uses >

[FFmpeg-devel] snapshots differ from git clone

2016-08-02 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
I have a script that cross-compiles ffmpeg on Ubuntu for Windows. Because it is faster to download a snapshot and extract it than doing a git clone the script uses http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot-git.tar.bz2 Recently I ran into unresolved externals in x86/dirac_dwt_init.c/o. Details