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  • From: John Harvey <>
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  • Subject: [cgal-discuss] How to convert git clone into tarball? They are different
  • Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:01:32 -0500
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Hello all,

If I want to look at CGAL 4.7 source code, I can do the following:
1) git clone https://github.com/CGAL/cgal.git
2) cd cgal
3) git checkout releases/CGAL-4.7

When I do this, I see over 100 subdirectories.

Next, I take a look at the CGAL-4.7 release tarball found here:
https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.7/CGAL-4.7.tar.xz

I see that the directory structure is very different.  The manual (http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/installation.html) does seem to indicate that this is expected.  However, I could not find where it explains how the tarball is made from the original git source code.

Is that something that somebody could explain to me?

Best regards,
  -John



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