[phobos] Getting the latest Phobos release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I need the latest release e.g. 2.052, not the latest and greatest in 
master. So this is more of an issue on how we tag releases in github and 
how I can get the most recent such tag.

Andrei

On 04/06/2011 01:34 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> In order to build and rsync d-programming-language.org, I must get the
>> latest release of Phobos.
>>
>> To do so, I need to figure out a mechanical way to fetch the latest
>> release from github (probably in a separate tree from the one I'm
>> working on). Then I build the html off that tree and rsync it with the
>> website.
>>
>> How can I get the last Phobos release from github?
>
> Well, if you already have a git repository there, then just run
>
> git-pull remote-name master
>
> (where remote-name is whatever you named the main repository as a remote
> branch - be it origin or upstream or whatever) and it'll grab the most recent
> version. If you aren't doing any development on that branch, then it'll merge
> just fine. The only issue that I can think of would be that it might have to
> deal with authentication (though if you use the http link, I think you can
> avoid that, since you wouldn't have commit privileges anyway). And if you want
> to do it from scratch every time, then just clone the repository and then run
> the build instead of pulling and then running the build.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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