>> This means that PKGBUILDs which checkout a specific revision are >> actually worse than the rest, as you cannot even get the source without >> knowing how many commits you need (rather than failing afterwards in >> pkgver() or something). > > Right. I had assumed that git clone -b/--branch did also exist for > tags.
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html --branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository.
