Persistent copy of a [git] repository

[Sean Farley]

Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> writes:

> Reposting the question ... I would be grateful for some feedback (and
> someone who could help me move the code to the core or some PortGroup
> in case that the approach sounds reasonable enough).

Have we looked into wrapping git/hg commands so that we could just keep
the working tree? Something like,

# keep a pristine copy
git clone URL /path/to/distfiles/on/disk

# "extract" the repo
git clone /path/to/distfiles/on/disk /path/to/worksrcpath
git checkout HASH_FROM_PORTFILE

Then, if the portfile changes, we can delete the worksrcpath like normal
and probably just run 'git fetch' to make sure the pristine copy is up
to date.