Hi,

fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space> writes:

> Without going into our technical structure - yes and no. However, we
> are actively moving away from dynamically generated tarballs (to
> making them ourselves from Git clones), not just for gnulib, but for
> everything where we consume a Git snapshot. We can get past this issue
> ourselves. However, at this point gnulib effectively has a dependency
> on git to use -- depends on how you feel about that how problematic
> that is.

I believe Pádraig Brady, who maintains Coreutils, also manages the
GitHub mirror for Coreutils and Gnulib [1].

GitHub makes it pretty easy to get snapshots from branches and specific
commits [2]. Not sure it that fits your use case, but I figured it was
worth mentioning.

Collin

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib
[2] 
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/using-files/downloading-source-code-archives#source-code-archive-urls

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