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Option to install last tag?

Open zilti opened this issue 9 years ago • 5 comments

Is there currently a way to have El-Get install the checkout with the latest tag, thus mimicking MELPA Stable? There's e.g. CIDER which I want to have stable releases only.

I tried adding :checkout "$(git describe --tags git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)" just in case, but that obviously failed.

zilti avatar Oct 10 '16 20:10 zilti

This is currently not supported. Patches welcome.

npostavs avatar Oct 14 '16 23:10 npostavs

I'm thinking about implementing a :checkout 'latest-tag which does that, would this be ok, or do you favour another way of denoting that?

zilti avatar Oct 21 '16 15:10 zilti

Yeah, that sounds good. A possible variation would be :checkout #'el-get-latest-tag where el-get-latest-tag is the name of the function which returns the tag. This has the advantage that it's easy to substitute other functions with different policies (e.g., el-get-latest-nonbeta-tag or something), though it's a bit more verbose. If you implement this, you can decide which way you like best :)

npostavs avatar Oct 22 '16 00:10 npostavs

I went with your idea of adding a function. Though I'm not really sure to what file I should add this function?

zilti avatar Nov 08 '16 00:11 zilti

el-get-recipes.el perhaps?

npostavs avatar Nov 08 '16 00:11 npostavs