[pacman-dev] VCS-PKGBUILDs

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 18/04/10 20:43, Yannick LM wrote:
>>>
>>> The second biggest difference between cvs/svn and the rest, that
>>> accounts for a lot of suckage with the other VCS, is the inability to
>>> query remotely the latest revision/version. We need to download/pull
>>> the code first.
>>>
>>
>> This is not true for git.
>>
>> $ git ls-remote git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git | grep HEAD
>>
>
> It is an issue with mercurial.
>
> Allan
>
>

That's interesting anyway. I didn't even know if was possible with
git, and git is the vcs I know the best :P
It might be worth to write down a summary of all VCS and their
features/commands relevant to makepkg in that wiki page.
Because I still think that's the main cause of all current problems.