will the use of GitHub ever be fully explained?

[Ricky G]

 Hey there Chris,
 I actually invested some time figuring this out. When the GH_TAGNAME is used, that hash will be downloaded instead of the PORTVERSION. Pretty much the PORTVERSION variable is ignored other than the fact that is will be packed as ${PORTVERSION} so it is important to keep TAGNAME and PORTVERSION in sync.
> To: freebsd-ports at FreeBSD.org> From: bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
> Subject: will the use of GitHub ever be fully explained?
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:34:56 -0800
> 
> Greetings fellow maintainers,
>  I'd like to update a port that's moved to GitHub.
> I pretty well understand the use MASTER_SITES where GitHub
> is concerned *except* where the need to use GIT_HASH for
> GH_TAGNAME, is concerned. Sure, I know how to put it there.
> But I am unclear how that affects the PORTVERSION entry.
> Does anyone have an example they'd be willing to share?
> Please?
> 
> What I'd like to accomplish:
> 
> PORTVERSION=	2.0
> 
> USE_GITHUB=	yes
> 
> GH_TAGNAME=	95f841f
> 
> But I don't think this will work.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Chris
> 
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