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Subject: Re: [ports]: GH_TAGNAME: how to figure out this tagname on
 downloadable archives?
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>,
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On 10/15/17 12:19, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Out of the blue there is a so called GH_TAGNAME. It reflects some late commit/revision
> number on an archive. Now I try to figure out how to find such a GH_TAGNAME. Since I do
> not push stuff to github, it is some new playfield and there might be an easy way to
> figure out, but this way is obscured to me right now.


GH_TAGNAME is the git commit hash, a hexadecimal number. github shows them for every commit. Usually, 7 first characters suffice.
GH_TAGNAME overrides the port version when tarball is fetched.
Just copy and paste it. :-)


Yuri