On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:24:42PM +0100, Xavier Chantry wrote: > I have grepped the full abs tree many times for various reasons. It is > very practical. No question about that, but it would still be possible to download everything. When you do a netinstall pacman gets a few hundred packages individually. Abs could do the same, it would transparent to the user. > And in 95% of the cases, I do not need any history, I just need the > last version to read/edit/rebuild. Yes, with git you get the full history. I've still not grokked why that is the only option... (except for Linus' motto: if in doubt, do the opposite of svn :-) Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !