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BertiBoeller

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Registered: 2009-01-19

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[Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

I've wanted to build qt5-declarative-git  from AUR. makepkg is supposed to checkout the 5.15 branch but it always checks out the dev branch. Can somebody tell me what's wrong? Is there something wrong with the PKGBUILD or is there a bug in makepkg?

Last edited by BertiBoeller (2020-11-12 13:28:55)

Slithery

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

makepkg is supposed to checkout the 5.15 branch

What makes you think that? It's a -git package, it's meant to check out the latest version.

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BertiBoeller

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

The bare checkout in $pkgdir/package_name will always point to the default branch. makepkg will checkout the correct branch when it clones the sources into the $srcdir/package_name folder.

ayekat

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

source=("git+https://code.qt.io/qt/qtdeclarative.git#branch=5.15")

BertiBoeller, the PKGBUILD will actually build the correct version. If you do `git show` within the source directory, you will see that the `makepkg` branch is the same as the `origin/5.15` branch.

The problem is that the pkgver() function returns a bogus version information because… it does awkward things. I don't know what the correct way to do it is, but it simply lists all known tags and picks the latest one, regardless of which branch it currently is in.

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weltio

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Registered: 2009-04-05

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

I'm sorry to bump that old thread, but I have exactly the same question.
When I use that PKGBUILD mentioned above (with the fragment "branch=5.15", the following git command shows that dev is checked out, not 5.15

 git branch | grep -E '(\*|5.15$)'
  5.15
* dev

The man page states

fragment
(optional) Allows specifying a revision number or branch for makepkg to checkout from the VCS.

So I would assume the 5.15 branch will be checked out

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seth

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

Following git command run where exactly?

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] Checkout specific branch from Git repository does not work

Weltio, please (re-)read necro-bumping .

Start a new thread and , link to this one and answer seth' question in the first post of the new thread.

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Closing this old thread.

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