On 2013–03–17 Jonathan Barchi wrote:
Just curious, does this repo stay up to date the the "official" updates from garden?
I assume that's the goal of the repo, but there is no guarantee that it does.
I've been using (basically) the scripts suggested on the "minimals" wiki page to update when new betas are released, but it would be great to be able to this with git instead.
The minimals (or Standalone distribution) contain more than just that repository. Among other things it provides the binaries, an update mechanism, fonts, third-party modules and MetaPost modules. Check your context directory, the repo provides the contents of texmf-context. Sure, you can take a current Standalone distribution and replace the shipped texmf-context with the git repo (which is very handy for testing and bisecting BTW) but it's not usable for production and will break after a while. If the other files (especially LuaTeX and 3rd party modules) get out of sync you'll run into errors no one else can reproduce. Marco