<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Michael,</div><div><br></div><div>This looks more like a grass-dev topic, than grass-psc. I'm adding grass-dev, please remove grass-psc when (if) you reply.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll let others comment on the tarball and website and comment on the Git and GitHub part. +1 for Nickals' answer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Git is definitely a valid way of getting source code for a build and perhaps a preferred one since there is all the extra metadata for files. Maybe we should work on clarifying whether that's really the preferred way.</div><div><br></div><div>When using Git locally, you need to be careful if you are using your fork or the upstream, OSGeo repo. If you do a new clone from GitHub, it should be pretty clear what you used.</div><div><br></div><div>Clone by default gets the default branch which is main, so you need to switch to another branch (`git switch` in modern Git, `git checkout` in old Git):</div><div><br></div><div>git switch releasebranch_8_0</div><div>git switch --detach 8.0.0</div><div><br></div><div>git checkout releasebranch_8_0<br>git checkout 8.0.0</div><div><br></div><div>When we one does repetitive clones (e.g., in CI), you can do a shallow clone with --branch (which works for tags too) to get just one given state of the repo:</div><div><br></div><div>git clone --depth 1 --branch releasebranch_8_0</div><div>git clone --depth 1 --branch 8.0.0</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>When using GitHub, the link Download ZIP which is under the green Clone button respects the current branch which you set using the combo-box at the right side or using the "8 branches" link. You can get, e.g.,<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/heads/releasebranch_8_0.zip">https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/heads/releasebranch_8_0.zip</a></div><div><br></div><div>On top of what Nicklas said about the release, you can also use the "124 tags" link which takes you to an overview page with links for all tags (==releases in our case).<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags">https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Vaclav<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 11:16, Michael Barton <<a href="mailto:Michael.Barton@asu.edu">Michael.Barton@asu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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I stand corrected. I am not sure that I have the current 8.0 stable release. Cloning gives me the main repository, not 8.0.0 stable. I can check out a branch but need to make sure that I've got the stable release 8.0.0. The reason is that I'm trying to package
 this in sync with other platforms. It looks like the 8.0.0 branch was updated recently. So it is not the fixed stable release of 17 days ago. 
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<div>On Feb 14, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Michael Barton <<a href="mailto:Michael.Barton@asu.edu" target="_blank">Michael.Barton@asu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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This sounds a bit weird, but with some recent changes to the GRASS website, it has become more difficult to find and download a current stable release.
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<div>I went to find a tar/zip package of GRASS 8.0.0 source code to build and could not find one from the web site. The links all lead only to the GitHub repository. This is fine for people who want dev versions. But I would think that some people
 just want the package. I eventually cloned one from GitHub, but even there, it is not transparent how to get the stable release vs. an updated version. Even on GitHub, the clone/download button seemed to be missing. </div>
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<div>While I could get the software, it seems like we should put back in a link to the source code packages somewhere.</div>
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Arizona State University<br>
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701<br>
USA<br>
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Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological Sciences (<a href="https://comses.net/" target="_blank">https://comses.net</a>)<br>
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