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If we stopped using VCS to fetch source files, we would lose the ability to get the exact commit(understand as version that has nothing to do with the underlyin
by gethly 10mo ago
If we stopped using VCS to fetch source files, we would lose the ability to get the exact commit(understand as version that has nothing to do with the underlying VCS) of these files. Git, Mercurial, SVN.., github, bitbucket...it does not matter. Absolutely nobody will be building downloadable versions of their source files, hosted on who knows how "prestigious" domains, by copying them to another location just to serve the --->exact same content<--- that github and alike already provide.
This entire blog is just a waste of time for anyone reading it.
- throwway120385 10mo agoOr you could just ship a tarball and an sha checksum.
- gethly 10mo agoyou could, in case you want to make only certain releases publicly available. but then, who wants to do that manual labour? we're talking mainstream here, not specific use cases.
- layer8 10mo agoAnd yet, that's pretty much how the Java world works (Maven repositories).
- forrestthewoods 10mo ago> This entire blog is just a waste of time for anyone reading it. Well that’s an extremely rude thing to say. Personally I thought it was really interesting to read about a bunch of different projects all running into the same wall with Git. I also didn’t realize that Git had issues with sparse checkouts. Or maybe author meant shallow? I forget.