[pacman-dev] The great VCS packages overhaul of 2015

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
> On 13.03.2012 12:05, Allan McRae wrote:
>> I do understand the branch name is useless once you have a tag/commit
>> id.  That is why later in the email I said it only really serves as
>> documentation.
>
> Use comments for that.

So just how do you propose using a comment to describe origin/maint in
the pacman repository to build my pacman-maint-git package? I don't
follow this logic one bit...you clearly need to use a branch name, not
some arbitrary sha1 that never moves forward with new commits...

-Dan