On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 at 19:17:35, Yaron de Leeuw wrote:
Hi. I have a suggestion for AUR 4.0.0: git tags with version information. The idea is that each and every commit will be tagged with the version extracted from .SRCINFO. Only the server will be allowed to apply tags (maybe a simple chmod on `.git/ref/tags` would do). They must never be overwritten, so `git-serve.py` should check if a tag exists before accepting a new commit.
This will allow the user to check what happened to the AUR package he wants to install with`git diff` and `git log`, relative to his installed version.
It will totally replace the need of aurifere, and can help other AUR helpers [1] as well.
What do you think? If there is interest, I will work on a patch.
I am not sure whether doing it automatically on the server is a good idea but I like the idea of having tags for different versions of a package. The problem with creating them on the server side is that you need to run `git push && git pull` instead of `git push` every time you want to sync the server with the local clone. Because it happens in the background, users might not be aware of the new refs and may not run `git pull` to update their local repository (which means the tags are also missing from any other remotes the users push to). Not sure if that really is a problem, though. I would like to hear some more opinions. Note that our post-receive script already rejects any updates to tags, so you don't need any additional checks here :)
Yaron