[gambit-list] .git in tarballs

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Nov 20 17:12:49 EST 2018


Yes it is on purpose.  The “-devel” tarball is for those who want to contribute to the development of Gambit.  If you don’t want the git history, just get the normal tarball (without the “-devel”).

Marc



> On Nov 20, 2018, at 4:59 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it on purpose that the
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.9/source/gambit-v4_9_1-devel.tgz
> image contains the .git directory with the entire history?
> 
> The lib/makefile.in later detects the presence of .git and uses the
> git binary, adding one dependency to the build, in addition to making
> the tarball bigger.
> 
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