Re: [PATCH 02/18] Add a new builtin: branch-diff

On 05/05/18 20:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
[snip]

[Sorry for the late reply - still catching up after (long weekend)
UK public holiday]

Well, what I would want to do is let the cloud work for me. By adding an
automated build to my Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) account, of
course, as I have "cloud privilege" (i.e. I work in the organization
providing the service, so I get to play with all of it for free).

So I really don't want to build sparse every time a new revision needs to
be tested (whether that be from one of my branches, an internal PR for
pre-review of patches to be sent to the mailing list, or maybe even `pu`
or the personalized branches on https://github.com/gitster/git).

I really would need a ready-to-install sparse, preferably as light-weight
as possible (by not requiring any dependencies outside what is available
in VSTS' hosted Linux build agents.

Maybe there is a specific apt source for sparse?

Not that I'm aware of, sorry! :(

[release _source_ tar-balls are available, but that's not
what you are after, right?]

I don't know what is involved in setting up a 'ppa repo' for
Ubuntu, which I suspect is the kind of thing you want, but it
would have helped me several times in the past (so that I could
have something to point people to) ... ;-)

ATB,
Ramsay Jones