GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:51:29PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> Corey Richardson wrote:
> >Getting source tarballs from github is a nightmare. See
> >http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148676.html
> >
> >The debian tool doesn't help very much because one still needs revision
> >garbage in the specfile. Is there any more recent ways to mitigate this?
> >Perhaps we could "lobby" github to change their ways, at least partially?
> 
> I don't know if this will be of any use to you, but for tcplay there
> isn't a tagged release, so I use this script to create an suitable
> tarball from a github commit with a known hash, by doing a clone
> then archiving it locally.  Certainly this doesn't solve the problem
> of not having a source URL.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # usage: tcplay-get-snapshot.sh <hash>
> git clone git://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
> ( cd tc-play && \
>   git archive --format=tar --prefix=tcplay-$1/ $1 \
> ) | xz - >tcplay-$1.tar.xz

I took what you provided here an expanded it a little:

http://mcpierce.blogspot.com/2012/04/creating-source-tarball-from-github.html

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