[sr #110873] would like option to keep cgit from offering .tar.gz files

[G. Branden Robinson]

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                 Summary: would like option to keep cgit from offering .tar.gz
files
                   Group: Savannah Administration
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Tue 25 Apr 2023 06:27:15 AM UTC
                Category: Source code repositories - web browsing
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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        Operating System: GNU/Linux
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any


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Date: Tue 25 Apr 2023 06:27:15 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
The groff project has recurring problems with people trying to use the .tar.gz
files that cgit so obligingly generates links to all over the place.

This would be fine, but (1) groff uses the "git submodule" feature to
incorporate gnulib and (2) there are many files in a distribution archive that
are not present in the repository.

Our users keep getting into trouble, thinking (reasonably) that they can
follow one of the two sets of instructions we have for building groff
(INSTALL.repo or INSTALL.extra), but because of the submodule issue, neither
actually works for these cgit-generated archives.

It would be nice to have a per-project configuration knob that we could use to
keep cgit from advertising these archives.

Examples of trouble:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00301.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-07/msg00064.html







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