emacs-app-devel build fail on master not detected by buildbot

[Christopher Jones]

> On 23 Apr 2021, at 3:48 am, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:05:34PM +0900, Aaron Madlon-Kay wrote:
>> However it was rejected by the maintainer because he *wants* the current setup. If the port no longer builds because the referenced commit is more than 1,000 commits in the past, then the port is ripe for a bump. Increasing the depth or using a date-based strategy will just balloon the amount of data fetched.
> 
> To be clear, the problem here was that MacPorts uses the xcode-provided
> git, and certain older systems have a version of git that's too old to
> support the --shallow-since option, causing the port to break on
> systems where it's buildable today.
> 
> Now, those systems are pretty old at this point (IIRC, it was El
> Capitan and older) so perhaps that is worth reconsidering. We could
> also install and use our own version of git on older systems as we do
> for some other fetch/extract dependencies, but that would require a
> base update.

why a base update ? Just adding port:git as a build dep would do it, as port would then use that version instead.

Chris

> 
> Dan
> 
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> Dan R. K. Ports                                      https://drkp.net/

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