running macports along with homebrew

[db]

On 6 Mar 2018, at 02:34, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 05:43, db wrote:
>> As I said in my previous post, you can get HEAD's hash with 'git ls-remote --heads'. And store it somewhere.
> Who are you suggesting should run this command and when? The port maintainer? The user trying to install the port? MacPorts itself?

MacPorts itself. I haven't tried it yet, but I suppose gh_version could be set to the value returned by that command. Then the only difference from a devel port that uses portgroup github would be the hardcoded date.