Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git"): > On Sat, 04 May 2019 at 21:10:34 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > So far I have gained the impression that > > the kind of people who are using packaging-only git trees tend to be > > very conservative, and very comfortable with .dsc/tarball/patch/quilt > > based tools, and not really convinced of the usefulness of git. > > A less common, but IMO valid, reason to use packaging-only git trees > is that your upstream source code consists of large non-text objects > that aren't managed efficiently by git. The openarena-data family of > packages are (I think) the only place I still use packaging-only git > trees, and the nexuiz-data package is an example of the sort of monster > that will typically be created if you don't.
Yes. These are a minority, though, I think. At some point, we will have to come up with ways of handling these. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.