5 Mar
2018
5 Mar
'18
12:13 a.m.
This means that PKGBUILDs which checkout a specific revision are actually worse than the rest, as you cannot even get the source without knowing how many commits you need (rather than failing afterwards in pkgver() or something).
Right. I had assumed that git clone -b/--branch did also exist for tags.
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository.