On 05/05/18 20:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote: [snip] [Sorry for the late reply - still catching up after (long weekend) UK public holiday] > Well, what I would want to do is let the cloud work for me. By adding an > automated build to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account, of > course, as I have "cloud privilege" (i.e. I work in the organization > providing the service, so I get to play with all of it for free). > > So I really don't want to build sparse every time a new revision needs to > be tested (whether that be from one of my branches, an internal PR for > pre-review of patches to be sent to the mailing list, or maybe even `pu` > or the personalized branches on https://github.com/gitster/git). > > I really would need a ready-to-install sparse, preferably as light-weight > as possible (by not requiring any dependencies outside what is available > in VSTS' hosted Linux build agents. > > Maybe there is a specific apt source for sparse? Not that I'm aware of, sorry! :( [release _source_ tar-balls are available, but that's not what you are after, right?] I don't know what is involved in setting up a 'ppa repo' for Ubuntu, which I suspect is the kind of thing you want, but it would have helped me several times in the past (so that I could have something to point people to) ... ;-) ATB, Ramsay Jones
