Re: Emacs source snapshots

[Leo]

On 2011-05-04 17:39 +0800, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> Hello, is it possible to provide frequent source snapshots of the
> Emacs source tree? For example once a week? The git tree from github
> [1] [2] is currently > 700 mb, its getting bigger on each commit and
> pretty fast. I dont know how big the bzr tree currently is. It would
> be useful for people who dont want to get directly involved with Emacs
> development, but still want a very recent version of it. For most
> these people keeping track of commit history doesnt make sense. AFAIK
> there is an unofficial repository providing binary packages for Debian
> and Ubuntu packages [3] plus Ubuntu has emacs-snapshot in their
> universe repository but package is from 2009 [4]. Hopefully providing
> frequent snapshots of the sources tree will ease things for everyone
> as the Emacs sources without commit history are ~100mb. Anyone else
> finds this a good idea?

You can always get the snapshot from cgit, for example,
http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/snapshot/234c7895577fa0acac1366fe01c1f0b59d6191d5.tar.gz

Leo