From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:17:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160124171750.16989204@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A4FE12.5000604@binghamton.edu>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:38:42 -0500
Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> > "Again you should not compress these patches because git does not
> > play well binary files".
> >
> > I'm not sure this statement still holds true with git. Does it?
> >
> It should be possible to compress the patches and use gitattributes[1]
> to tell git to decompress them before diffing. But doing so is not
> needed since git compresses its objects in the first place. Maybe we
> can rewrite this as "You should not compress these patches because git
> compresses them upon commit transparently."
I think that's beside the point. Regular users fetch the tree with
rsync, not git, and the limit is primarily there to avoid bloating that
transfer.
--
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 8:45 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 00/19] devmanual: update the docs for post git-migration Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 01/19] general-concepts/manifest: drop the use of "CVS keyword expansion" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 02/19] general-concepts/mirrors: substitute "CVS" with "the git tree" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 03/19] general-concepts/tree: substitute "CVS" with "git" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 04/19] general-concepts/tree: replace the mention of ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:45 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 05/19] ebuild-writing/misc-files: replace the code for cvs commit with git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 06/19] ebuild-writing/user-submitted: do not put user information in ChangeLog #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 07/19] appendices/editor-configuration/emacs: remove the CVS related setting #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 15:00 ` Patrice Clement
2016-01-24 15:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-01-24 15:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Andrew Savchenko
2016-01-24 23:44 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-25 0:51 ` Brian Dolbec
2016-01-24 16:38 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-24 17:17 ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 09/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on commit policy for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 10/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on upgrading ebuilds " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 11/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on moving " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 12/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 13/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the subsection on removing packages " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 14/19] ebuild-maintenance: replace "cvs commit" with "git commit" #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 15/19] general-concepts/git-to-rsync/diagram: update the description for git #558642 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 16/19] " Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 17/19] ebuild-writing/misc-files: remove ChangeLog section #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-25 0:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-25 1:02 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-25 1:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-01-25 8:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-27 4:19 ` Göktürk Yüksek
2016-01-27 7:12 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 18/19] tools-reference: remove the echangelog page #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
2016-01-24 8:46 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 19/19] general-concepts/tree: remove the reference to the ChangeLog #485314 Gokturk Yuksek
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