Re: PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread s...@vilain.net
git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub. On March 9, 2017 7:42:20 AM PST, peter green wrote: >I have recently started pushing source for packages where we carry >modifications for in raspbian to github. The packages are imported into >git using dgit. >

PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
I have recently started pushing source for packages where we carry modifications for in raspbian to github. The packages are imported into git using dgit. However I have discovered that this is not possible for all packages. In particular github rejects files over 100 megabytes and the

on quilt, dpkg, dgit and symlinks.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
I recently discovered some unusual behaviour in a source package I was working on. I was using some scripts I put together myself to generate patch series for a debian package. dgit claimed I was creating a new symlink and that creation of a new symlink could not be represented by 3.0

Re: PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread Sam Vilain
On Mar 9, 2017 09:08, "peter green" wrote: On 09/03/17 16:05, s...@vilain.net wrote: git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub. Thanks but it seems like a highly undesirable soloution to me. Firstly it seems to require mangling your git repo. That is going

Re: PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
On 09/03/17 16:05, s...@vilain.net wrote: git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub. Thanks but it seems like a highly undesirable soloution to me. Firstly it seems to require mangling your git repo. That is going to make it at best a PITA to use with things like dgit.