# About this Repo

The generated tarballs don't belong in a git repo. In the past we had to use git checkout --orphan, which very effectively discards all the history of the branch for each tarball. The benefit is much shorter download times, since there's no big binary history.

Now the tarballs are handled by git-lfs:
git lfs install                       # initialize the Git LFS project
git lfs track "*.tar.xz"

This is the Git repo of the Docker [official image](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_repos/) for [debian](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/debian/). See [the Docker Hub page](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/debian/) for the full readme on how to use this Docker image and for information regarding contributing and issues.

The full readme is generated over in [docker-library/docs](https://github.com/docker-library/docs), specificially in [docker-library/docs/debian](https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/debian).

## Maintainers

This image is maintained by [tianon](https://nm.debian.org/public/person/tianon) and [paultag](https://nm.debian.org/public/person/paultag), who are Debian Developers.

## Building

This image is built using `bin/mkimage.sh`, where the interesting bits live in `bin/mkimage/debootstrap`.


The [`master` branch](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian) contains the scripts and is where any "development" happens, and 
the   [`dist` branch](https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/tree/dist) contains the built tarballs and the build logs.

Separate branches:

dist-unstable
dist-stable
dist-oldstable
master