Re: main url for linking to git source?

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2018, 06:43 UTC
Message-ID: <03bd84bd-dda9-882f-ad3c-861792b54ce9@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZVdiEOO+b_Ygrfw1D9uV1T5TYBS580zPaZeYoMRfNuUQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 07 May 2018 11:45 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:

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>> I could see arguments both ways, so I thought I'd take a straw poll of
>> what people on the list think.
>  
> Junios reply below focuses on the URL passed to git-clone, which
> is only found at https://git-scm.com/downloads (?)
> 
> There I would try to mirror Junios list of "public repositories"
> https://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/git-public-repositories.html
> without officially endorsing one over another.
>

FWIW, I also seem to support this suggestion as it's not opinionated.

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> For those links that link to web pages, I am ok with any of the
> hosting providers, maybe even taking the one with the prettiest
> web page. Maybe we want to reword those sections to rely
> more on indirection, e.g. "get the source[link to the source page],
> checkout the next branch", without the quick web link to a web page
> showing the 'next' tree.

Seems to be a nice suggestion to avoid the "main/official" url issue.

To add a little more, it might be better replace the "Source code" link with a link to Junio's list of public repositories stated above. Also, it might be better to rename the link to "Public repositories containing the source".

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