Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:25:09 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:33:34PM +0100, BÃ¡lint RÃ©czey wrote:
>
>I have just learned a new trick which would help people with limited bandwidth.
>
>It is not a subtree clone, but the result is practically the same and
>the downloaded data is minimal:
>$ git archive --remote=ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/ffmpeg.git
>master debian/ | tar xvf -
>
>It does not work with GitHub, but does perfectly with git.debian.org.

And it throws away the .git directory, making it useless for people
working on stuff - they can't commit...