Fetching tarball of a commit

[Craig Treleaven]

At 1:19 PM -0500 5/13/12, Sean Farley wrote:
>  > Daniel:
>>
>>  Thank you very much!  That works perfectly.  BTW, it also works with the
>>  short hash as well, ala ...
>>
>>  github.setup            MythTV mythtv 9ccfac11f3
>>
>>  To me, if one is pulling a specific Git commit, the version should include
>>  the date.  Eg:
>>
>>  version             0.25-fixes-20120510
>>
>>  This way, when you update the port to a new commit, just update the date at
>>  the same time.  Unless, of course, you plan to update multiple times per
>>  day!  ;)
>
>You know, it's amazing what's already in the ticketing system:
>
>https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33889

I saw that but I don't quite follow what it provides.  Could you show 
sample output?

Craig