RE: git bundle format

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From: Felipe Contreras
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:20 PM

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Pyeron, Jason J CTR (US)
[off-list ref] wrote:

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I may need to be nudged in a better direction, but please try to

understand my intentions.

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I am facing a situation where I would like to use git bundle but at

the same time inspect the contents to prevent a spillage[1].

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Am I barking up the right tree?

Have you tried 'git fast-export'? The output is definitely not human
inspectable, but should be relatively easy to parse to generate such a
format. And instead of 'git bundle unbundle' you could use 'git
fast-import'. or simply do the conversion in your script.

No. But I am going to read up on it today. It clearly says "You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement"[4]. My initial question is does it ever use deltas? The repositories I just tested it on only seem to output full blobs (which is really nice from this use case point of view).

-Jason


4: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-export.html