RE: git bundle format

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felipe Contreras
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:20 PM
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
> <jason.j.pyeron.ctr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I may need to be nudged in a better direction, but please try to
> understand my intentions.
> >
> > I am facing a situation where I would like to use git bundle but at
> the same time inspect the contents to prevent a spillage[1].
> >
<snip/>
> >
> > Am I barking up the right tree?
> 
> Have you tried 'git fast-export'? The output is definitely not human
> inspectable, but should be relatively easy to parse to generate such a
> format. And instead of 'git bundle unbundle' you could use 'git
> fast-import'. or simply do the conversion in your script.

No. But I am going to read up on it today. It clearly says "You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement"[4]. My initial question is does it ever use deltas? The repositories I just tested it on only seem to output full blobs (which is really nice from this use case point of view).

-Jason


4: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-export.html

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