gitlab tags

[Jonathan Stickel]

I am trying to make a port for git-latexdiff. It is hosted on gitlab:

https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff

The project has "tags" which look similar to github's tags (and 
releases). I am having trouble specifying the "master_sites" and 
"distname" variables for the port in order to download the appropriately 
tagged tarball. The download link, e.g.,

https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=v1.1.4

automatically morphs into a download file of

git-latexdiff-v1.1.4-dc84273afc2e366d6c4f98a07052e651c7d297dd.tar.gz

I've used the github portgroup to mange this with github-hosted ports, 
but there is no "gitlab" portgroup.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jonathan