Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!

> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:31:32 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any project hosted on Savannah, at least those using Git, supports a
> feature that allows downloading a snapshot of any branch in the Git
> repository.  You can do it like this:
> 
>    wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/PROJECT.git/snapshot/BRANCH.tar.gz
> 
> Alternatively, one can point a Web browser to this page:
> 
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=PROJECT.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/BRANCH
> 
> and then click on the "snapshot" link near any commit; that will
> download a tarball representing the repository state at that commit.
> 
> So far so good, but AFAIK this information is nowhere to be found on
> Savannah, at least not on the pages of the projects.
> 
> Can this information please be added to the appropriate page of each
> project?  For example, here:
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs
> 
> The motivation for this request is that sometimes users are asked to
> try a development snapshot, and some of them want a snapshot tarball
> to do that.  Last time I was asked, I needed to dig into my records
> for several minutes before I found some old email where someone told
> me about that.  I'd like this information to be more easily
> discoverable, if possible.
> 
> TIA
> 
>