Creating a new port

[Joshua Root]

C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
>>> - git is not supported for fetching, but svn is.
>> You can write your own fetch phase if you really need to use git.
> 
> that's one thing i would like to hear more about. how do you do that?
> or can you point to an example portfile maybe? is the understanding
> that you still have cached distfiles, or would you pull them regardless
> what lies around already?

You'd do something like:

depends_build port:git-core

fetch {
    set git.url <whatever>
    system "cd ${workpath} && git clone ${git.url} ${worksrcdir}"
}

You could be a bit more clever by fetching to ${distpath} and copying to
${workpath} in extract, which would save cloning every time.

- Josh