Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Toby White wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if a feature like the following would be of
>> use to anyone except me: I'd like to be able to download
>> the full source of a given tree from gitweb.
> [...]
> So you want to have snapshot of a tree. Why not snapshot of a commit, 
> or of a tag?
> 
>> I've quickly hacked gitweb to do this for me - patch below.
>>
>> It adds an extra link to the 'commit' page. Next to the link
>> that would lead you to 'tree', there is 'tar.gz' which simply
>> returns the tar.gz of the same tree.
>>
>> The patch is against the version of gitweb currently in
>> Debian, which is, erm, '264-1', apparently, because that's
>> what I had to hand.
> 
> It is really better to hack git with git. And you can use current gitweb
> with old git (well, not always, as current gitweb requires --full-history
> option to git-rev-list to be available).
> 

How about the below on top of latest git 

-aneesh