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[bug#61910] [PATCH] git-download: Download a bare Git repository from SW
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#61910] [PATCH] git-download: Download a bare Git repository from SWH. |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:12:10 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 14:15, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
[...]
>> I wonder if we could achieve the same without creating a repo just to
>> delete it afterwards, either by invoking a low-level ‘git’ command it if
>> exists, or using Guile-Git, or doing it ourselves in Scheme.
>
> Doing it ourselves in Scheme, I do not know. I guess it would be
> hard.
[...]
> From my understanding, this information is provided by:
>
> $ cat hidapi.guix/.gitattributes
> * text=auto
>
> *.sln text eol=crlf
> *.vcproj text eol=crlf
>
> bootstrap text eol=lf
> configure.ac text eol=lf
Uh, tricky enough.
[...]
> Kidding aside, I agree that relying on Guile-Git would mean being less
> "fragile".
Libgit2 has an “attr” interface¹ that Guile-Git only partially binds.
That interface works on a repo, so we’d still have to ‘git init’ just to
be able to read those attributes. Not great.
¹ https://libgit2.org/libgit2/#HEAD/group/attr
But anyway, skimming through gitattributes(5) has convinced me that we
should not try to implement it by ourselves. :-)
> About low-level 'git' command, maybe the same could be achieved
> without "git init" + "git add" + "git commit". Well, my gitology is
> not enough skilled. :-)
I did a quick search and didn’t find anything so it looks like the
strategy you chose is the right one.
Thanks,
Ludo’.