git checkout branch in makefile

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:19:13PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 9. Jul 2018, at 19:34, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to do a git checkout of a specific branch in a ports
> > makefile?
> > 
> > How would I go about checking out a particular branch from a github project.
> 
> As branches aren???t stable this won???t buy you anything, that???s why you should always go for a tag or commit (which is branch agnostic).

If you want to make it easy to update to the latest commit on a branch, take
a look at devel/llvm-devel/files/gen-Makefile.snapshot.sh for an example
of automatically extracting that information from the github API.

-- Brooks
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