John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> writes:

>> On May 20, 2019, at 6:02 AM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does the tarfile not create a tree gnucash_XXXXXX (where XXXXXX is the
>> git hash of the tarball)?
>> 
>> I guess there is no way to disable this "feature" of github?
>
> Nope. It just creates a zip file "gnucash-maint.zip" containing a
> single directory "gnucash-maint" with no indication of what commit its
> for.
>
> I don't see any way to disable or modify the "clone or download"
> behavior in settings.

:-/

Maybe we need a README.md that says right at the top "DO NOT DOWNLOAD A
TARBALL/ZIPFILE FROM GITHUB"?

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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