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If you can archive the tarball, you can archive the git repos. If for some reason you can't, you can cut your own tarballs from the git repo and then you don't
by lupusreal 3y ago
If you can archive the tarball, you can archive the git repos. If for some reason you can't, you can cut your own tarballs from the git repo and then you don't have to worry about them because you made them yourself.
- b112 3y agoArchiving an entire git repo is serious overkill, and untenable realistically. Debian has 30k packages, if not more, and some of them are the linux kernel. My responses in these threads has been to the "why not build from git" logic championed here. You want to build from a reliable, repeatable source. And as I mentioned, that can be git clone -> tarball, sure.