Portfiles with fetch.type git ... can one add arguments to git?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:59 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Sunday August 17 2014 08:10:58 Ian Wadham wrote:
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
>> Has anyone mentioned "git pull" ("git fetch" + "git merge")?  Clone the
>> whole schmear once, then use "git pull" to pull in remote commits
>> whenever you wish.
> 
> Well of course. But that requires that you leave the working copy around, which MacPorts typically doesn't do (and for good reason).

Actually we plan to change that, once I or someone gets around to writing the code:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16373


>> Have you considered using KDE's "kdersrc-build" scripts with the additions
>> I have developed (and use) for MacPorts and OS X?  With them, you can
>> have "bleeding edge" versions of whatever KDE software you wish and
>> use stable versions of Qt, etc. taken from MacPorts.  See [1].
> 
> Heh, I have [considered] now ;) Pity one cannot have Qt4 and Qt5 together in MacPorts (right?)

They do currently conflict, yes. It is desired to change that:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/44193