Alright, not everyone has moved to Git yet. For the old fashioned we now provide tarball downloads.
They should work with any branches or tags, defaulting to master. Yet another excuse for not moving to GitHub: destroyed!
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Tarball Downloads
3 Mar 2008
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cool, what about having a SVN repo for project? Using a nice post commit hook that shouldn’t be too too hard for geniuses like you ;)
We’re a Git hosting site, not an SVN hosting site :)
I know, I know… it’s just not always easy to convince people to use git. Having a SVN output of a git repo would really help me in the short term(I wouldn’t have to convince anyone to switch).... but in the long term that wouldn’t solve any issues.
anyway, the tarball solution is awesome!
Also, providing SVN access doesn’t give them any incentive to switch… so that sucks.
Brilliant!
An guide for tracking SVN repos might be useful.
if you still want to maintain a SVN repo, you probably need to use the post receive hook as explained here: http://github.com/guides/post-receive-hooks
It would be nice if this were an actual link and not a button (In the URL’s section).
This would make it more intuitive to be able to copy the link into an email, or into a wiki page with instructions for downloading a bare tarball copy.
(Yes, I know you can right click the button and copy the URL, but its not very intuitive) :-)
In lieu of making that change you should have instructions in the help for how to construct such a link:
http://github.com/USERNAME/PROJNAME/tarball/BRANCH
Love the GitHub.