On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:59:01PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > > Hmm, I may have misunderstood your comment. If my response about > > tags doesn't actually answer your concern, please elaborate. > > A source tarball is not the same as a snapshot of the git tree, is it?
I see your point. My understanding is that the source tarball is a snapshot of the git tree, plus auto-generated files such as INSTALL.txt which are generated solely from the snapshot of the git tree. If that understanding is correct, then I would feel comfortable arguing that a diff between git tags is sufficient to "represent" a diff between source tarballs. My understanding of the GNU policy is that this is a recommendation, a "it would be nice for some users if you did XYZ", rather than a requirement. In the age of git and git-snapshot-tarballs and the like, I think this recommendation is less valuable than it was ten years ago. However, I could be mistaken. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
