On 03/13/2012 06:15 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
Hmm... good idea using the fragment identifier for specifying the branch/tag/commit to checkout. Being inspired by how pypi uses these to provide checksums, could I even suggest:
<url>#branch=maint <url>#tag=v4.0.1 <url>#commit=f42ad345
This gives full clarity to what is being specified an allows for potential cases where branches and tags have the same name and we could provide multiple options, semicolon separated, if needed (obviously not for git, but maybe for another VSC system).
That makes tag/commit unable to move forward automatically unless you can always specify a branch and then optionally a tag/commit. There are ways to get the children of a commit though; makepkg could move to the tip of the branch if there's only one child and complain if there's more.