Re: Emacs source snapshots

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 05.05.2011 04:58, schrieb 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

would assume that being snapshot of a specific day.

Let's point at the pure address again:

http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git