On 03/13/2012 06:15 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > > Hmm... good idea using the fragment identifier for specifying the > branch/tag/commit to checkout. Being inspired by how pypi uses these to > provide checksums, could I even suggest: > > <url>#branch=maint > <url>#tag=v4.0.1 > <url>#commit=f42ad345 > > This gives full clarity to what is being specified an allows for > potential cases where branches and tags have the same name and we could > provide multiple options, semicolon separated, if needed (obviously not > for git, but maybe for another VSC system). >
That makes tag/commit unable to move forward automatically unless you can always specify a branch and then optionally a tag/commit. There are ways to get the children of a commit though; makepkg could move to the tip of the branch if there's only one child and complain if there's more.
