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website makes it too hard to get a tarball when I know I want one

Open mabraham opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

  1. Want to compile git for a box not running a popular distro
  2. Go to http://git-scm.com/downloads on my linux laptop
  3. See nice button that says I can "Download for Linux" version 2.0.0
  4. Follow link
  5. Reach page http://git-scm.com/download/linux that says I should use a package manager

To get here, I followed a link that advertised a download for 2.0.0. The suggested package-manager commands probably would not give me 2.0.0 with any of the distros cited unless I happen to be running the respective bleeding-edge versions. But I'm not running any of them. Worse, there's not even a fallback tarball link to cater for the people who just want a download URL and not to be out-thought! :-)

  1. Go back one level
  2. Follow link to "older releases"
  3. Find tarball in long list
  4. Download
  5. Report issue
  6. ???
  7. Profit!

mabraham avatar Jun 18 '14 21:06 mabraham

@peff seems worth looking into!

sxlijin avatar Feb 08 '17 00:02 sxlijin

Yes, I'd agree it's hard to get to a tarball. Patches are welcome in that direction (the Linux downloads page could mention it, but I suspect even before you get there that the "Latest source release" mentions should link to tarballs or something).

peff avatar Feb 08 '17 17:02 peff

I think #953 improves this somewhat. There should probably be a link somewhere based on the current source version, rather than making people dig through the (somewhat gigantic) list of tarballs on kernel.org. So I'll leave this open for now.

peff avatar Feb 10 '17 23:02 peff

Agree, it's much better now, and a further improvement would be an automatic link to latest tarball.

mabraham avatar Feb 16 '17 11:02 mabraham