On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 at 15:56:12, Marcel Korpel wrote:
* Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> (Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:01:45 +0100):
The 4.0.0 release brings Git repositories to AUR packages. You can test a pre-alpha version at aur-dev.archlinux.org
Suggestion: when downloading a snapshot the file is always called 'master.tar.gz'. Can't this be renamed to $pkgbase.tar.gz? Now I have to rename the tarball myself each time I download a new snapshot (provided that users don't use git to clone a complete repository).
It is recommended to always use Git to fetch packages, unless you are in an environment without a Git client (which is supposed to be a corner case). If you do not want to import the full history, you can use shallow clones (`git clone --depth 1`).
If there's interest for this feature, I'm willing to create a patch myself (if no-one does this before me).
I do not think it requires a patch, maybe a rewrite rule is sufficient?
Regards, Marcel