commit 0f4e196a5aa0de3639a5caecc8ee232d11e12b79
author Justine Tunney <jart@google.com> Thu Mar 30 03:56:12 2017 -0700
committer David Z. Chen <davidzchen@users.noreply.github.com> Thu Mar 30 03:56:12 2017 -0700
tree da549d675123d487708c783134458344cf84150b
parent dc4d7e238d18a86fbb036efd065a5d290eb772f6

Recommend redundant URLs for installation (#42)

See go/bazel-downloader for more information. This feature was made
possible by https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/commit/ed7ced0018dc5c5ebd6fc8afc7158037ac1df00d

README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2356873..cf078d1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,10 +25,14 @@
 external repositories for the Rust toolchain:
 
 ```python
-git_repository(
+http_archive(
     name = "io_bazel_rules_rust",
-    remote = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust.git",
-    tag = "0.0.5",
+    sha256 = "aa7ad550e2960143835c6a7d3bbc29e313aedf89ea879e5465e97f5d6a19e7f5",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_rust-0.0.5",
+    urls = [
+        "http://bazel-mirror.storage.googleapis.com/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/archive/0.0.5.tar.gz",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/archive/0.0.5.tar.gz",
+    ],
 )
 load("@io_bazel_rules_rust//rust:rust.bzl", "rust_repositories")
 

rust/rust.bzl

diff --git a/rust/rust.bzl b/rust/rust.bzl
index 632a757..ecb123a 100644
--- a/rust/rust.bzl
+++ b/rust/rust.bzl
@@ -24,10 +24,14 @@
 external repositories for the Rust toolchain:
 
 ```python
-git_repository(
+http_archive(
     name = "io_bazel_rules_rust",
-    remote = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust.git",
-    tag = "0.0.5",
+    sha256 = "aa7ad550e2960143835c6a7d3bbc29e313aedf89ea879e5465e97f5d6a19e7f5",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_rust-0.0.5",
+    urls = [
+        "http://bazel-mirror.storage.googleapis.com/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/archive/0.0.5.tar.gz",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/archive/0.0.5.tar.gz",
+    ],
 )
 load("@io_bazel_rules_rust//rust:rust.bzl", "rust_repositories")