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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 5:21 PM, demerphq<demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > I updated gitweb today, and it seems like snapshots are now working. Thanks for doing that. > With one catch. No .patch file so it probably isnt possible to use the > snapshot to build. Well, you can build, but unless you wrote down the commit ID somewhere, you won't know what you've bulit. > I need to figure out a solution to that ASAP. But at least now its > possible to get a .tgz. We should probably document the exact incantation of git describe that generates the .patch file, or perhaps embed it in a make_dot_patch.pl and put it in the repository. That way it's transparent where it comes from and any mirror that wants to do the same thing could do so. I assume this is currently done in a shell script on dromedary somewhere?Thread Previous | Thread Next