[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [RFC] github.com/cookbooks

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Jesse Campbell wrote:

> Biggest problem I run into with the opscode community cookbook site is that 
> it isn't a git repo, so i have to download files, so if i make changes, i 
> can't easily merge in upstream changes.
> The opscode cookbooks are also in https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks, but ;
> those are dev versions, not the released versions, so i can't use them 
> without possibly running into untested/broken code.
> 
> Basically what i want is for the opscode community cookbook site to allow 
> running a git clone of everything it holds, instead of being a repository 
> of zip files.

This seems better served by using tags in the existing git repos (ex. 
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/application/tags). Josh makes them now 
as part of the release process so you should be all set :)

--Noah