Leo Famulari wrote: > 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.
It isn't just guix. There are a lot of the various projects that are using that feature. I just picked one and noted it in passing while looking at the other things. Sorry. I didn't mean to make it feel like I was picking on guix. I should have picked at least three for the example so it didn't feel like I was poking at guix specifically. Sorry. My bad. > 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 I appreciate the explanation anyway! :-) Bob
