On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:35:30AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am also seeing a lot of cgit snapshot activity. Across all of the > projects. Here is one example. > > [13/Mar/2017:12:34:45 -0400] "GET /cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz > HTTP/1.1" 200 11642975 "-" "GNU Guile"
This is used in Guix as part of our update mechanism. Specifically, the command `guix pull` [0] downloads that snapshot to accomplish something that you can consider analogous to `apt-get update` on dpkg / apt systems. We plan for `guix pull` to evolve to use Git directly rather than downloading a tarball, but we aren't there yet. [0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/pull.scm
