[mythtv-users] MythTV 29.1 and git?

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 27/03/18 14:15, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 03/26/2018 08:33 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's the thing though...and some of this may be my lack of
>>> experience with git: When you say "in your git directory" it's sort of
>>> putting the cart before the horse. What I actually pulled off of
>>> github was based on the most recent commit in fixes/29 (as of
>>> 2018-03-24) using this:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/archive/60e40b352ab95a135ec2ab8f9f1ee93b4f9d245e.tar.gz
>>>
>>> I'm guessing that's in fact newer than whatever branch was tagged as
>>> 29.1. So basically I'm unclear as to how I'd even check 29.1 out of
>>> git in order to query it's version with "git describe". Clearly I'm
>>> missing something.
>>>
>>> I'm sort inclined to go with the newest version anyway, but I'd still
>>> like to understand this.
>>>
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/archive/v29.1.zip
>>
>> which is available from the MythTV mythtv repository (
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv ).  Click on "Branch: master" to get a list
>> of branches available, then click on the Tags tab, then v29.1.  Then you can
>> click on "Clone or download" to get the appropriate URIs.
>>
>> Mike
>>
> 
> As noted in my previous email, I was in fact able to figure out the
> commit that was tagged as 29.1. In order to get the newest commit
> version from fixes/29 I was able to use:
> 
> git clone -b fixes/29 https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git
> 
> Due to the nature of the Gentoo ebuild, I needed to specify the
> version using the commit version. It appears that zip files of all the
> releases (including 29.1) are available at the
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/releases page.
> 

The requirement to use the commit version, would probably make it
*easier* to use the fixes branch, and use the git hash as the version?


Regards
Stuart