On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 06/09/15 10:42, David Manouchehri wrote:
For sharing/keeping source packages, is there any reason not to include .git/ if it's present when creating a .src.tar*?
I know a fair amount of Arch devs are on SVN, so it would definitely need to be optional.
Size. Private stuff in .git.
And git repos are better distributed in other ways.
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Regarding size, hopefully people aren't tracking binaries to begin with. Compressed text files shouldn't be huge. What private information would be in .git/? Clearing the cache should prevent that if it's a concern. I agree that there's better ways to share Git projects, but I've never been in a situation where I wish I *didn't* have a package's version history.