[aur-general] How to update .SRCINFO without creating a tarball?

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Thu, 28 May 2015 at 11:49:07, Νῖκος Θεοδώρου wrote:
> [...]
> Since you're at it, why don't you make the "git push" part a bit
> clearer, since many of us are unfamiliar with git? Ie, you could put
> the steps like that:
> 1. Create a new (empty) package base foobar, run the following command:
> $ ssh aur-dev.archlinux.org setup-repo foobar
> 2. Clone the (initially empty) package repository via SSH:
> $ git clone ssh+git://aur-dev.archlinux.org/foobar.git/
> 3. Change into the directory:
> $ cd foobar/
> 3. Copy the relevant files from previous AUR folder:
> $ cp ~/AUR/coolvlviewer/* ./
> 4. mksrcinfo from the package blah-blah
> $ mksrcinfo
> 5.
> $ git add .
> 6. 
> $ git commit -m "Initial commit"
> (or whatnot)
> 7. Push:
> $ git push -u origin master
> [...]

Added a simplified version of this to the wiki.