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2009/7/27 Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com>: > 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? On camel, in /gitcommon/branches you can find a README explaining what happens. Feel free to poke into it, or remind to do so more. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next