Hi Joey, I just thought to check with you on either the idea itself sounds any reasonable...
in the frame of NeuroDebian we package "data" packages which are usually quite large in size... there were numerous previous discussions on viable ways to gain some convenience/size tradeoff, e.g. how to not duplicate 1GB of data in .orig and .deb files. But now that you equipped us with git-annex , it might be time to research for new ways? just a blunt idea -- what if 3.0 (git) format (with which I haven't played before either) gets extended to provide git-annex'ed .git with references to publicly (and local for buildds) available annex-ed remotes and original urls (added via git annex addurl). Then by dropping of all load from .git within .orig we achieve small size, while providing ways to fetch the original load either from urls, or git-annex-ed remotes. Does it sound any sensible? -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home