On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:56 PM Tong Sun wrote: > I saw many people are stop using the "pristine-tar" branch, since the > "pristine-tar" tool can do just that.
To add more content, this is where the idea comes from: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/generating_pristine_tarballs_from_git_repositories/ > If I want to do the same, > > - what should I do, if I have a repo that contains such pristine-tar branch? > - If I have a repo that contains such pristine-tar branch that has > never been pushed, would removing the pristine-tar branch recover the > space wasted before, so when pushed to the server, it'd look like the > branch was never before? Now I found more incidents that the "pristine-tar" tool doesn't work. E.g., https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/pristine-tar-and-git-buildpackage-work-arounds/ https://www.preining.info/blog/2014/06/debian-pristine-tar-packaging/ So, I'm starting to wonder, whether saving the space is more important than being trouble-free. Yours input appreciated. > Detailed steps appreciated. thx