* Pierre-Yves Chibon:
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:39:19PM +0200, clime wrote:
But I would like to note that exploded repos (or source-git repos) have at least two other advantages.
- they consume less space than tarballs for each version because
objects in git repo are deduplicated 2) instead of downloading/uploading tarballs, you can just do something like: git pull --rebase upstream master; git push
Just a note that this is not something you can do today since a rebase rewrite history, so you would have to do `git push --force` which isn't allowed currently. So if we were to move forward with this model, we will need to find a solution for the question that has led us to forbid force pushes until now.
You could do a fake merge (git merge -s ours) to include the old master branch in the history, so that from a Git perspective, it's again a fast-forward push.
I'm more concerned that a standard git rebase will not produce great results, producing a history that contains the new upstream version with a bit of cruft on top of it, only some of it actually needed. But it is worth a try.
Thanks, Florian