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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New git.eclass
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:41:02
Message-Id: 446E395D.50407@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New git.eclass by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:08:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
3 >> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
4 >>> Also, git-sources *should* use this eclass once it is in the tree since
5 >>> people using it will save _lots_ of bandwidth and disk space.
6 >> Yes, I'll convert it over once you feel it is ready, just let me know.
7 > I'd like to voice an objection to converting git-sources using a
8 > git.eclass and performing live fetching.
9 >
10 > This takes away the ability to use to existing git snapshots when there
11 > is no or minimal network connectivity.
12
13 I'm not sure I understand. If you have enough connectivity to get a
14 snapshot to the machine, why wouldn't you have enough to get a .git/ to it?
15
16 Thanks,
17 Donnie

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