BTW, google code has a download zip button for GIT and Mercurial projects (yes, SVN doesn't have one because it sucks that much
).
Anyway, for a project like VHBL i think that people should download the full source tree with all the revisions (the zip file strips all the git metadata) so they can switch revisions on the fly without downloading a new zip file everytime. Without a control revision system the people who downloads a zip file of the sources and make some changes to it will have a hard time to make a patch file to contribute back to the project, while it could be done easily if the user had the full svn/git source code tree.
While i agree that VHBL should be switched to git, my reasons are more simple: svn should die, just like cvs did
.
tl;dr: people shouldn't get jut a zip file for this project since people normally doesn't download vhbl sources to just compile and use it (they could get the binaries instead).
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