From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Gaffney Subject: Git Download/Bootstrap Suggestion Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:09:21 -0500 Message-ID: <49CD0841.9000602@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 27 18:12:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LnFav-0001Ip-RY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:11:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755626AbZC0RJe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752734AbZC0RJe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:34 -0400 Received: from pp0.asolutions.com ([66.236.120.143]:55848 "EHLO pp0.asolutions.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754343AbZC0RJd (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:33 -0400 Received: from acews3.asolutions.com (acews3.asolutions.com [192.168.2.179]) by pp0.asolutions.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n2RH9UhG001845 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:09:31 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.7400:2.4.4,1.2.40,4.0.166 definitions=2009-03-27_08:2009-03-27,2009-03-27,2009-03-27 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0811170000 definitions=main-0903270115 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I may be missing something, but I would like to request that http://git-scm.com/download provide a link to a tarball of the actual git clone of the current repository with the repo parked on the latest stable. What I mean is that for most of my systems I build git off of source but I like to be able to just git pull when I want to update them. Currently what I have to do is - download the source tarball (or the rpm) - make it - install it - use that git clone the real repo - checkout the newest tag - make configure - configure - make - make install It'd be a lot cooler if I could just wget a full get repo on the latest tag :) Just a request, Thanks -Mike