Re: Proposal: Switch back to savannah using GIT

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,


David Chisnall wrote:
> - Automatic tarball generation.  When I’m packaging a project for FreeBSD, it 
> makes me very happy to learn that it’s hosted on GitHub, because if I know the 
> release branch name or hash I can automatically generate a URL that is a 
> tarball of the sources and tell the port to grab that for building.  When I’m 
> doing a release of something GitHub-hosted, then it’s trivial: create a tag and 
> you’re done.  We’ve recently moved the public CHERI repo to GitHub precisely 
> because it’s the easiest way of generating tarballs from a repo.
Since we have an advanced make system,
make dist, if you are on a quickie
make svn-tag && make svn-dist, if you want to do it nice.

Ah, and when I use cvs....
make cvs-tag && make cvs-dist, really that different, isn't it?

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Writing_Makefiles

No need to launch a browser click on some web interface of github. No 
need for a "hash", I have a version tag and I'm done.

Riccardo