Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

2022-05-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 23:25:23 -0600 > From: Bob Proulx > > Before we advertise this feature for wide use I would like to try to > stress test doing this first. At a time that someone can be looking > at the system load at the same time. Because it worries me. It has > browned out the system

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

2022-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Can this information please be added to the appropriate page of each > project? Honestly this worries me a because I recall that creating those snapshots puts a high load on the server. Right now a few people do it and it isn't so bad. But if it is advertised as a feature

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

2022-05-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Ping! > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:31:32 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > Hi, > > Any project hosted on Savannah, at least those using Git, supports a > feature that allows downloading a snapshot of any branch in the Git > repository. You can do it like this: > >wget https://git.savannah.gn

[Savannah-hackers-public] Add information about downloading Git snapshots

2022-04-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Hi, Any project hosted on Savannah, at least those using Git, supports a feature that allows downloading a snapshot of any branch in the Git repository. You can do it like this: wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/PROJECT.git/snapshot/BRANCH.tar.gz Alternatively, one can point a Web brows