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Git sources in PKGBUILDs

Hi all!

I see more and more PKGBUILDs switch to using git repo checkouts instead of tarballs. Is there any serious reason behind it? Git operations are a lot more consuming compared to plain archive download and unpacking, especially since only single commit is required in the end. Unless source directories are reused for subsequent builds, it looks like unnessesary complication.
ARMtix
 

Re: Git sources in PKGBUILDs

Reply #1 –
That'd be a question for the Arch maintainers. Though the increase in git sources seems to me to have started shortly after git sources could be properly verified with checksums.