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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:12:43 +0200
Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:
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> in particular there seems to be no way to get a properly versioned 
> tarball, so I resorted to ta minimal git checkout.
> This problem affects most of the spells in this section, some of
> which have a a lot of history which I did not want.
> In some cases the difference was ~300K vs ~15M.
> Also some of the spells have no official releases.
> 
> Does 'summon' process the DOWNLOAD file?

Yes, it does.

> If so, I coud improve the clone_single_branch function, to give a 
> reproducible result.

Please don't, instead extend the standard Git backend, it already
fetches a single branch, it just needs to know about --depth, by
extending the URL parser to specify the depth the change should be
minimal.

We should be able to make a new release of sorcery soon. I am hoping
to have a couple of days to work on it next weekend to clean up a few
features.