svn commit: r448034 - head/Mk

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 18/08/2017 à 15:03, Alexey Dokuchaev a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:50:10PM +0000, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> New Revision: 448034
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/448034
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add a git-clone target to clone the github repositories referenced in
>>   ports using USE_GITHUB.
> What is it useful for (specifically within the ports tree) that fetching
> specific commit hash won't provide?  Cloning the repo implies that one's
> intended to work on it and thus needs all the history.  For an arbitrary
> port that one wants to build it's an overkill.  Also, how feasible is to
> cache cloned repo (like we cache normal distfiles now)?


This is an easy way for the port maintainer to get the repository to
check for newer versions, patches, or running git describe on a commit
hash, or whatever they want to do with the repository, without having to
look at the Makefile to see what the account and projects are, and type
the git clone line.

It is not supposed to be used during the build process, and as such, I
do not see why it would be needed to cache things. Or how caching would
work.


-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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