The documentation for doing this is in Mk/bsd.sites.mk (cut and pasted
below)
Also, You can take a look at devel/py-kazoo as an example
#
# In order to use GitHub your port must define USE_GITHUB and the following
# variables:
#
# GH_ACCOUNT - account name of the GitHub user hosting the project
# default: not set, mandatory
#
# GH_PROJECT - name of the project on GitHub
# default: ${PORTNAME}
#
# GH_TAGNAME - name of the tag to download (master, 2.0.1, ...)
# default: ${DISTVERSION}
#
# GH_COMMIT - first 7 digits of the commit that generated GH_TAGNAME
# (man git-describe(1))
# default: not set, mandatory
#
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Radim Kolar <[email protected]> wrote:
> its good practice to download source code using git from github if it is
> not available for download, just tagged in repo?
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