How to specify commandline options to git for the fetch phase of a port?

[Craig Treleaven]

At 3:35 PM +0000 11/12/14, William Gallafent wrote:
>On 12 November 2014 15:26, Daniel J. Luke 
><<mailto:dluke at geeklair.net>dluke at geeklair.net> 
>wrote:
>  > On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:45 AM, William 
>Gallafent 
><<mailto:william at gallaf.net>william at gallaf.net> 
>wrote:
>>  According to 
>><https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.fetch.git>https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases.fetch.git 
>>I am able to set the url and tag to fetch Š but 
>>for a particular port I'm playing with I also 
>>need to add the "--recursive" option in order 
>>to get the submodules in place. Alternatively, 
>>I would need to run "git submodule update 
>>--init --recursive" immediately after the fetch.
>>
>>  Any thoughts or advice?
>
>First, be sure you actually need to use git to 
>fetch the source (it's /much/ better to pull a 
>tarball than to pull source from 
>git/mercurial/svn/cvs/whatever).
>
>Fair point! The only links given to source for 
>this project are to git repositories, 
>unfortunately - 
><http://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/linphone/downloads>http://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/linphone/downloads 
>Š if there's a location from which I may 
>download source tarballs, then so much the 
>better, but I haven't found one yet!

What's wrong with:

http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/linphone/3.7.x/sources/linphone-3.7.0.tar.gz

Craig