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Re: 01/02: gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch.


From: Marius Bakke
Subject: Re: 01/02: gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch.
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 18:40:50 +0100
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Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Duh, I confused these with the github generated archive, sorry about
> that.
>
> Is there any preference between git-fetch and url-fetch?

url-fetch requires less bandwidth, and does not depend on 'git'.

Though the most important distinction is that uploaded releases
sometimes contain pre-processed sources (e.g. documentation) that need
additional dependencies or scripts when building from the raw repository
(this is why you often need to add autoconf, libtool & friends as inputs
when building Autotools projects from git).

I don't know whether there is a difference between the uploaded fmt
zipball and the git repository.

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