On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 14:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > Assuming you're just using git for conveniently applying local > downstream patches, you don't need the git repo to exist once > getting to the build stage. IOW just delete the .git dir after > applying patches before running a build.
...then what do you do if the build fails and you want to edit/update the patch before retrying? "Blow away your .git tree every time you build and reconstitute it somehow later" doesn't seem like a very friendly thing to require... thanks -- PMM