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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

I have one gripe with git spells... namely: branches. I am still trying to 
get my HD3200 integrated graphics to do XVideo, and in the course of that I 
am faced with drm and Mesalib spells that offer git and choice of git branch. 
I think it is suboptimal that the tarball is always named the same way 
regardless of branch it represents. Since stuff is not working for me (well, 
drm isn't with the HD3200), I am suspicious of everything, including 
wondering if switching branches works properly with the existing git snapshot 
tarball from /var/spool/sorcery. The larger issue here is that I share the 
spool directory via NFS and somehow don't feel good with one machine using 
one branch and another machine another branch, both extracting the current 
tarball and switching the branch it represents back and forth. Basically, I'd 
like the branch to be part of the version "number" of the git spells... that 
would solve the shizophrenic tarball, too.

A real fix would be to have some sort of named releases, even usable ones at 
that, of course:-/ 


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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