That's like ancient history by now. But there's a new gittorrent references file for a distribution if you don't need to be up to date. A shallow clone of blead works out to be a 16MB download. A full clone of the ~37,733 commits in the repository is about a 112MB download.
And for the record,
Com- Pump- Release Date Notes
mits king (by no means
comprehensive,
see Changes*
for details)
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Leon maint-5.005 2007-Oct-02
Nicholas 5.8.5-RC1 2004-Jul-06
5.8.5-RC2 2004-Jul-08
5.8.5 2004-Jul-19
5.8.6-RC1 2004-Nov-11
5.8.6 2004-Nov-27
5.8.7-RC1 2005-May-18
23,900 5.8.7 2005-May-30
5.8.8-RC1 2006-Jan-20
24,294 5.8.8 2006-Jan-31
25,218 maint-5.8 2008-Mar-03
23,217 Rafael 5.9.2 2005-Apr-01
25,521 5.9.3 2006-Jan-28
5.9.4 2006-Aug-15
29,291 5.9.5 2007-Jul-07
5.10.0-RC1 2007-Nov-17
5.10.0-RC2 2007-Nov-25
30,191 5.10.0 2007-Dec-18
30,256 maint-5.10 2008-Mar-03
30,813 blead 2008-Mar-03
