On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Perhaps it would be nice to have "bundles" in git too. As of now > we can save arbitrary part of history in a pack, but it is binary > not textual representation. > > Some of git workflow stems from old, pre-SCM Linux kernel workflow > of sending _patches_ via email. Actually, the reason to _not_ have bundles very much stems from the fact that BK did have bundles, and they were pretty horrid. It would be easy to send the exact same data as the native git protocol sends over ssh (or the git port) as an email encoding. We did that a few times with BK (there it's called "bk send" and "bk receive" to pack and unpack those things), and after doing it about five times, I absolutely refused to ever do it again. There's just no point, except to make your mailbox grow without bounds, and it was really annoying. So sending things as patches is just a lot more convenient if you want emails. And if you want to sync two repos directly, I think we've gotten sufficiently past the old UUCP days when you want to use email as a packetization medium. That said, "bundles" certainly wouldn't be _hard_ to do. And as long as nobody tries to send _me_ any of them, I won't mind ;) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html