[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add the ability to always build from the repo's HEAD

[Techlive Zheng]

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 A task has also been added:

  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35499

 scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index c27c74d..cd7ed48 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -557,6 +557,9 @@ download_git() {
 		if ! git fetch --all -p; then
 			# only warn on failure to allow offline builds
 			warning "$(gettext "Failure while updating %s %s repo")" "${repo}" "git"
+		else
+			git fetch origin HEAD
+			echo "$(git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD)" > HEAD
 		fi
 	fi
 }
@@ -597,6 +600,9 @@ extract_git() {
 			branch)
 				ref=origin/${fragment##*=}
 				;;
+			HEAD)
+				ref=HEAD
+				;;
 			*)
 				error "$(gettext "Unrecognized reference: %s")" "${fragment}"
 				plain "$(gettext "Aborting...")"
@@ -604,6 +610,8 @@ extract_git() {
 		esac
 	fi
 
+	ref=$(git rev-parse "$ref")
+
 	if [[ -n $ref ]]; then
 		if ! git checkout -b makepkg $ref; then
 			error "$(gettext "Failure while creating working copy of %s %s repo")" "${repo}" "git"
-- 
1.8.2.3