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