[babel-dev] Extracting project source files from Git repositories

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis,

Now that most Eclipse projects have moved to Git repositories, Babel has to add the supports to extract project source files from Git repositories.

I found that it's very convenient to download the Git repositories snapshot zips, for example http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.git/snapshot/R4_2.zip, and then extract all the .properties files from the zips.

Do you know if it's safe to use "wget" to download the Git repositories snapshot zips? Or, do you have better suggestions on how to download/copy the zips from the Eclipse servers?

Thanks,
Kit Lo
Eclipse Babel Project Lead
IBM Eclipse SDK (IES) Globalization Technical Lead
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) Globalization Technical Lead