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[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:50:17AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> In a way that we could run this over the entire archive to produce
> statistics? Well, all Vcs-Git packages anyway...?

Yes.

> > It would be better to avoid adding that behavior to "debcheckout -p"
> > though, as currently that flag is able to work offline, while the new
> > query behavior would require network connection ...
> ... remind me again why we shouldn't just introduce Vcs-TopGit?

Nobody said we shouldn't. Still, the concern was that TopGit is not
really a new Version Control System, and it is not necessarily true
that a user should be able to appreaciate the difference between a
plain git and a TopGit repository to benefit from the Vcs-*
information.

Cheers.

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