Re: Git snapshot tarballs, multiple-pass formatting, and pdfmom

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Hi Collin,

At 2026-07-22T00:16:47-0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> "Alexis (surryhill)" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Hi Branden, hi Phong
> > I'd like to offer some personal insights and possible workarounds on
> > this, as I've been building from a distribution archive and a
> > snapshot archive.
> > By snapshot archive I mean any archive (tgz, zip) from a commit
> > bundled by your forge of choice, e.g.:
> > https://api.github.com/repos/coreutils/gnulib/tarball/833eea6be5607a85b=
c964bf728a7a82ca461b5b1
> > (Couldn't find how to fetch a snapshot archive for groff from Savannah,
> > hence the coreutils github example url)
>=20
> I would assume snapshots are disabled on Savannah, since it likely
> invites bot spam.

They might be now universally, but back in 2022 it was something we had
to ask for special support for, for groff.

I cannot determine when exposure of snapshot archives disappeared from
Savannag's CGit service for _groff_.

I found an email where I asked for a volunteer to file a ticket
requesting this.

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

Elsewhere in that thread you'll see Werner Lemberg (of Freetype, and
formerly groff maintainer!) joining the lament of snapshot archives.

I looked at a couple of the Savannah admin trackers, and could not find
a relevant ticket filed by barx (Dave Kemper) or myself, and we're about
the only _groff_ developers who bother with such things.  Maybe I didn't
look in the right place.

Some months later, I guess the snapshots were still there, because I
spoke of undocumenting them on the _groff_ home page.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-11/msg00013.html

> Though trying to access gitweb gives me a 502 error at the moment, so
> I can't check if they are available on any repositories.

Do I know _that_ pain.  :-|

Regards,
Branden

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