GitHub is a terrible upstream

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/23/2012 11:21 AM, Patrick Monnerat wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 14:27 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 20:51 -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
>
> I noticed putting what you want after .../tarball/XXXX has no effect,
> thus I have good results by using URLs like:
>
> https://github.com/user/app/tarball/gittag/user-app-gittag.tar.gz
>
> where user and app identify the repository target and gittag is the hex
> code of the desired commit. This satisfies rpmbuild and the URL is
> valid.
>
> The downloaded tar contains everything under directory user-app-gittag.
>
> Of course, this works as long as the target data (i.e.: repository)
> lives on github :-/
>
> Patrick
>

It wasn't obvious at first to me but this works with tags not just commit 
hashes.  So if a project tags there version numbers you can do something like:

  https://github.com/enthought/mayavi/tarball/4.2.0/Mayavi-4.2.0.tar.gz

The contents are still in a directory named user-app-hash

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