On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:14:10AM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
> > Ah, yes, we could possibly exclude all lines other than DIST during the
> > conversion. It would mean post-processing is needed to use the tree
> > anyway, but that shouldn't be a problem.
> if you aren't going to use git as a distribution mechanism is there a
> point to storing any manifests in the tree? why not just add Manifest
> to .gitignore? otherwise to make it work with rsync you'll still have
> to gen the full manifest each time.
No, the entire point of thin-Manifest was realizing that the Manifests
in Git only need to store the DIST entries, because the SHA1 for the other
entries can be extracted from Git index directly.

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