Re: [png-mng-implement] libpng.git hosting via sourceforge

[Glenn Randers-P. <gl...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Brandon Casey <ca...@nr...> wrote:
efficient: 1.3Gbytes of tarballs squeezed down to about 5Mb.
>
> Yeah, it's not the space.  It's the fact that the history of changes of the
> machine generated files is not useful or interesting.  They change with
> _every_ single release and their changes only serve as a distraction from
> the changes to the _real_ human created content.

It's not going to help much because most of the source files have
embedded dates and version numbers.  In fact, most of the generated
config files do not have these, and don't change very frequently.

Maybe a better approach would be to change all the dates
to %DATE% and the version numbers to %VER%, as I do when
I generate the version diff file that is in the libpng distribution.
That will be abit tricky to get right, though, and we'd have
to supply a script to restore dates and version numbers,
which would probably introduce more confusion that we
want.  Git itself already introduces enough of that.

Glenn