From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs source snapshots Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 19:39:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4DC2E0CD.9030807@online.de> References: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304617180 4068 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2011 17:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 17:39:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 19:39:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QI2WV-0006A5-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 19:39:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI2WV-0006PL-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI2WS-0006PE-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI2WQ-00037L-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:57018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QI2WQ-00037B-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 13:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4d0c3e6f.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.62.111]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MGKzj-1QW3QY3ZmZ-00FAAf; Thu, 05 May 2011 19:39:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:CTAQizuQjNtR3zEwslNHmfeOCZoibyyJhtkAoyPwn6o NPBQiOdw3C2xIQzunZ0Ahhf2KiduNga3V2DZHs2NPikp1kREWV Rv6A2rwsmYKZfeQgRSHREMLiou92hwmUyN346yx5etpNLEdKfK GZcAXNT0zIVuf50ebDjZhpfZg41zeP6Oe8/JRvZSASmNbgSak7 +d9OJjo7gVn/v692+anCeCAm/7Xz1Twf+Oy0epoB/Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139159 Archived-At: 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