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

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kit,

IMO, using wget to fetch a snapshot zip is even better than a Git clone, there you're essentially fetching (and storing) the entire project's history, which is definitely not needed for Babel's purposes.

Either use wget if it's a shell script, or use php's file_get_contents() if it's a PHP script.

Denis

On 11/13/2012 06:06 PM, Kit Lo wrote:

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?