From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dilip M Subject: Re: Git Download/Bootstrap Suggestion Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:54:24 +0530 Message-ID: References: <49CD0841.9000602@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Gaffney , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 28 08:27:36 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 1LnSx6-0007uQ-6B for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:27:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752860AbZC1HY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:24:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752430AbZC1HY2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:24:28 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:54371 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbZC1HY2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:24:28 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1286923fxm.37 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:24:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jctlom895uS5OH7mx9LH5Pdq1QGi/sTY8JV0Xn0WIDA=; b=paQbfUhEU9XhN6tJhDdaeztTSvQ2r3GqBDFLNp8fkVqxMWkoX9mqZ1f99yVoyXz6UO 0DqBINEr+Nl0PwH73WFxkAlJUglncQZ1Is+yl5IQnYkdMe5oBkySmL8Bc3rpM4F5k4jG nog9ihvQ0viyYORKzVnnKNGZVeFic+u4Sbz94= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xds7/6KWoaYxvr20cmnHTOSxmY2sd4BtXv9x0x7qUa5/OHGLjJeSLG0zwOnOZ5SXWT vUkH/LP+dIzykAe7Hqsf3Zcn+8y4+WzDtTz4zpLvzPb7pv8ok6At056irWW07T60wLZ8 SVuE82kf6sfSpKMqewLmLZ21TFF6M5AU3ides= Received: by 10.204.62.13 with SMTP id v13mr1016407bkh.50.1238225064295; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:24:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49CD0841.9000602@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I had a same question :) what I want is to distribute a git version across some team. I maintain a clone and keep the latest tag checkedout. When ever there is a new release (tag), I switch to master branch and pull. Than I checkout the new tag and compile. Is there any simple way to do this w/o any downtime?. There should be .... I just miss some extra knowledge on git. Thanks in advance for suggestions Dilip On 3/27/09, Mike Gaffney wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >