[macports-base] 12/18: fetch: Always use port:git for fetch.type git

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Mar 20 13:10:41 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-20 10:58, Clemens Lang wrote:
> ----- On 20 Mar, 2018, at 02:58, Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org wrote:
> Unfortunately that version of git has a bug in its 'git archive' that was later fixed.
> However, this bug causes the output to change, which breaks the entire approach of having
> checksums for the archives generated by this branch.

I do not know which version of git was distributed with which Xcode.
Using the same version of git for all systems seemed like the safest
solution.

> Remember that checksums for files downloaded from GitHub would suddenly change? If we
> don't want to end up in the same situation, we'll need this dependency.

Just as a reminder, we still have not recovered from that and some ports
are left broken:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/54839

Rainer


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