I need help with git

[Paul Schmehl]

--On February 4, 2013 11:41:45 AM -0500 Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

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> On 2/4/13 11:21 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I'm the maintainer for security/barnyard2.  The software recently
>> changed so that all distros are pulled from github.  The developers
>> made new commits, and now the port is broken, and I cannot figure
>> out how to fix it.
>>
>> Here's the relevant code from the Makefile:
>>
>> PORTNAME=       barnyard2 PORTVERSION=    1.11 CATEGORIES=
>> security
>>
>> MAINTAINER=     pauls at utdallas.edu COMMENT=        Interpreter for
>> Snort unified2 binary output files
>>
>> LICENSE=        GPLv2
>>
>> USE_GITHUB=     yes GH_ACCOUNT=     firnsy GH_PROJECT=
>> ${PORTNAME} GH_TAGNAME=     master GH_COMMIT=      4dfdc80
>>
>> The master tagname apparently gets moved to the new commit every
>> time the developers commit changes.  This is NOT what I want.  I
>> want the port to stay at the release version until a new version is
>> released.
>>
>> I've tried everything I can think of to get this port to pull the
>> commit I want.  It does not work.  I've tried changing the tagname
>> to v2-1.11, v2-${PORTVERSION}, stable, dev-next, etc., etc.
>> Nothing works.
>>
>> Here's the git site:
>> <https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/commits/master>
>>
>> If I pull master, I get commit f57e464.  That's not what I want.
>> Why doesn't this thing pull the commit I'm telling it to pull?
>>
>> I'm so frustrated by this I'm about to drop this port.  I do NOT
>> want to have to update the port every time the developers commit
>> more code. That is NOT how software should work.
>>
>> Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix this problem so the port
>> will remain at the release version until the next version is
>> released no matter how many commits the developers make?
>>
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> Hi Paul,
>
> I just changed this line:
>
> GH_TAGNAME=	master
>
> to this:
>
> GH_TAGNAME=     v2-1.11
>
> and it worked fine.
>

Thanks, Greg.  That is the correct answer.

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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