On 27 March 2011 08:31, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> wrote: > Why? Fetching git and checking out a specific commit is easier than > creating and uploading tarballs. It's also easier to figure out which > commit the repo package is using. How do you figure out which commit the package uses? Talking about git, for example, you only see pkgrel=<date>. How to see if your package include a fix committed in that <date> or not?
> Are you talking about the tarballs created by web interfaces (cgit, > hgweb, gitweb, ..)? Afaik the checksum is the same if you specify which > commit you want to get. If you just go with HEAD/tip it will change of > course. You are right here, if you specific the commit the tarball keeps the same checksum. -- Andrea
