Re: git revision number for package update

On 22 Apr 2020, at 8:38 pm, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 1. How can I get the revision number of the source from a git repository?
> 
> Not sure what you mean here. A git repo is a sequence of commits with some commits 'blessed' with tags, which are what are usually used to mark released versions. Revisions are not something that usually come up for git.
> In Fink, a revision is the tracker for changes to an individual package at a certain source version. So if you have Version: 2.1.1 and then realize something needs to change in the package (a bug, new feature), but it's still using the same version from upstream, the Revision field is increased to note that the older description is now outdated.
> 
Many repos now have a ‘releases’ directory that is populated with tarballs of the tagged releases.
So you can conveniently download directly from GitHub, but by default they have non-descriptive
naming schemes like v%v.tar.gz. But that is easily handled by the SourceRename field as you
described below.

Cheers,
						Derek



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