>From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 2007/02/16 Fri AM 05:57:20 CST
>To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@xxxxxxxxxxx>, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-bundle - pack objects and references for disconnected transfer
>Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> Mark Levedahl <mdl123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> +# create the tar file, clean up
>>> +tar cf "$bfile" --absolute-names --transform="s,$tmp-,," \
>>> + --verbose --show-transformed-names \
>>> + "$references" "$pack"
>>
>> I'm not sure this will work on FreeBSD. Both 5.1 and 6.1 use tar
>> that does not know about --absolute-names, --transform, --verbose,
>> or --show-transformed-names.
>
>for portability, pax is the official choice :) and it can even do path name modifications with -s. but why again are we using tar there? this data could easiliy be put in one mixed text/binary file, starting out with
>
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "This is a git bundle. Use git-unbundle to process me." >&1
>exit
>### DATA ###
>
>or so
>
>cheers
> simon
... I *tried* that, and it fails under Cygwin. Apparently cygwin's bash (or something) mangles data in the pipe (99% certain it will turn out to be a latent crlf issue)...
cat "$bfile" (
read refs...
git index-pack --stdin
)
worked several times, it only failed twice out of 8 bundles I tried. That's just a trifle bit too high a failure rate for my taste. ;^)
Mark
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