Tags on Release Commits

[Talia-12]

Would it be doable for you to add a tag to commits that you're publishing/have published to crates.io? It would make packaging for nixpkgs a bit cleaner.

[fdncred]

maybe, if i can remember? how does it make it cleaner?

[Talia-12]

here's an example of the kind of code that you see in a nix package, fetching the source code of the thing being packaged:

src = fetchFromGitHub {
  owner = "fennewald";
  repo = "nu_plugin_net";
  rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
  hash = "sha256-GOF2CSlsjI8PAmIxj/+mR01X5XMviEM8gj7ZYTbeX7I=";
};

if there's no tag to target the fetch of of you instead would have, e.g.,

rev = "c41f98632a538cad38ed0dd518340fb8eb28274e";

which works, but is significantly uglier and also significantly less readable as to why that git commit in particular was picked.

[fdncred]

make sense. let's see if i remember next time. maybe i should just leave this open until then as a reminder?

[Talia-12]

It should be pretty easy to go back and tag the commits that you made releases? I don't know if github has something inbuilt to do it, but if you grab the commit id you can tag that commit from the command line with e.g.

git tag 0.6 c41f98632a538cad38ed0dd518340fb8eb28274e

and then push that tag to github with git push origin --tags.

[aidalgol]

It would also be beneficial to users getting the package from crates.io, because it lets them see which commit a given version was built from.

[fdncred]

i remembered, yay me!