Are tarballs obsolete?
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Are tarballs obsolete?
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Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#2Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#3Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
You can use `--depth=1` to only download one revision, and `--branch` to specify an alternate branch or tag.
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#4Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
git clone --depth=1
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#5Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
By default, yes. But you can use the --depth option to limit it to a clone of the most recent state.
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#6Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
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Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#7Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
While I disagree with the authors sentiment as a whole; this issue could be solved by using a shallow clone.
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#8The problem tarballs solve is bundling files together. That use-case will probably be with us for awhile even if it has fallen out of favor for source code.
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#9Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a git clone involve downloading the project's entire git history as well as $CURRENT_VERSION? That seems a little excessive.
Ironically git actually supports TAR for this exact thing: git archive exports tar files.
You can do a low depth to minimize that if you want (--depth=1 or something like that if I remember correctly). You could just rm -rf the root .git directory after but that is a download bloat issue.
That said this should work:
git clone --depth=1 --branch=master git://myrepo && rm -rf myrepo/.git`
Re: Are tarballs obsolete?
#10Absolutely not; there are a myriad of reasons to prefer tarballs over Git:
- Offline use - Permission restrictions (Internal git networks) - True-persistent versioning (Can always delete and update a tag), no external tools needed to download - Can restrict extra garbage that may not be need to be shipped - Etc.