Hi Collin, At 2026-07-22T00:16:47-0700, Collin Funk wrote: > "Alexis (surryhill)" <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi Branden, hi Phong > > I'd like to offer some personal insights and possible workarounds on > > this, as I've been building from a distribution archive and a > > snapshot archive. > > By snapshot archive I mean any archive (tgz, zip) from a commit > > bundled by your forge of choice, e.g.: > > https://api.github.com/repos/coreutils/gnulib/tarball/833eea6be5607a85bc964bf728a7a82ca461b5b1 > > (Couldn't find how to fetch a snapshot archive for groff from Savannah, > > hence the coreutils github example url) > > I would assume snapshots are disabled on Savannah, since it likely > invites bot spam.
They might be now universally, but back in 2022 it was something we had to ask for special support for, for groff. I cannot determine when exposure of snapshot archives disappeared from Savannag's CGit service for _groff_. I found an email where I asked for a volunteer to file a ticket requesting this. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-07/msg00064.html Elsewhere in that thread you'll see Werner Lemberg (of Freetype, and formerly groff maintainer!) joining the lament of snapshot archives. I looked at a couple of the Savannah admin trackers, and could not find a relevant ticket filed by barx (Dave Kemper) or myself, and we're about the only _groff_ developers who bother with such things. Maybe I didn't look in the right place. Some months later, I guess the snapshots were still there, because I spoke of undocumenting them on the _groff_ home page. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-11/msg00013.html > Though trying to access gitweb gives me a 502 error at the moment, so > I can't check if they are available on any repositories. Do I know _that_ pain. :-| Regards, Branden
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