How to fetch files from GitHub?

[Mikhail T.]

On 26.07.2012 19:41, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> Check out ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel for an example.
>
> It uses a known hash, but you can use tags as well.
Thanks for the pointer! Yes, that's it... The port uses a separate 
variable (GITVERSION) instead of just calling it DISTVERSION -- no 
doubt, to appease portlint, which complains, when DISTVERSION and 
PORTVERSION are specified at the same time. This work-around 
necessitates two extra lines in the Makefile without being otherwise 
useful...

I think, I'll just call the hash "DISTVERSION" and also explicitly set 
the PORTVERSION -- to 0.20120726. (The 0.-prefix may help in the future, 
when the upstream finally release version 1.0 :-)

> You'll need to override FETCH_ARGS as seen there too.
Yes, that works, thank you!

    -mi