> On 23 Apr 2021, at 3:48 am, Dan Ports <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:05:34PM +0900, Aaron Madlon-Kay wrote: >> However it was rejected by the maintainer because he *wants* the current >> setup. If the port no longer builds because the referenced commit is more >> than 1,000 commits in the past, then the port is ripe for a bump. Increasing >> the depth or using a date-based strategy will just balloon the amount of >> data fetched. > > To be clear, the problem here was that MacPorts uses the xcode-provided > git, and certain older systems have a version of git that's too old to > support the --shallow-since option, causing the port to break on > systems where it's buildable today. > > Now, those systems are pretty old at this point (IIRC, it was El > Capitan and older) so perhaps that is worth reconsidering. We could > also install and use our own version of git on older systems as we do > for some other fetch/extract dependencies, but that would require a > base update.
why a base update ? Just adding port:git as a build dep would do it, as port would then use that version instead. Chris > > Dan > > -- > Dan R. K. Ports https://drkp.net/
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