Re: GOP-PROP 2-1: LilyPond is part of GNU

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:22:41PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Here's the first "main" policy point in GOP 2.  For those
>> > unfamiliar with GOP, here's a quick summary:
>> 
>>     make a diff between releases     11.2    let’s not bother; interested
>>     parties can make a diff themselves from git.
>> 
>> Really?  git can produce diffs between developer trees, not between
>> release tarballs.
>
> Can't it make a diff between tags?  We always have tags for
> releases (unless that broke sometime recently).
>
>> Rolling several source releases and diffing them
>> seems like considerable work to me.  While I lean towards "don't bother"
>> as well, the reasoning seems shaky at best.
>
> Hmm, I may have misunderstood your comment.  If my response about
> tags doesn't actually answer your concern, please elaborate.

A source tarball is not the same as a snapshot of the git tree, is it?

-- 
David Kastrup