Re: contributing to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, arne_bab@web.de, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:02:10 +0300
> 
> On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 15:51 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
> > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, arne_bab@web.de, ams@gnu.org, 
> > >         emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:28:01 +0300
> > > 
> > > How do you get latest upstream code without access to VCS?
> > 
> > You can request a snapshot tarball from Savannah.
> 
> Does it imply sending an email to Savannah admins?

No.

> Because I'm browsing page
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/ and I don't see any
> link to a tarball.

Do you really need one?

> Either way, is it even a realistic usecase?

No, not really.  Maybe in some emergency.

But one can have a release tarball as the base for preparing a patch,
or a tree moved from another system, or a system that's off-line, etc.
Which is why we also accept diffs, not just "git format-patch".