[csw-maintainers] support for GitHub hosted repositories

[Peter FELECAN]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> Also note that I added generic git (git or http protocol) support a few
> years back. It supports arbitrary treeish targets.
>
> The downside I found was permissions when a subsequent maintainer wants to
> pull. I never got sons to forcing usable permissions in the garchive
> directory. A second downside was needing to v drive the auto tools setup
> every time.
>
> There are a few examples if using this support in the tree still.

I have seen that. However, what I implemented is downloading tarballs
fro GitHub and that has less issues even tough the autotools part can be
necessary which I don't see as an issue but a feature...
-- 
Peter