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Date:      Mon, 17 May 2021 18:48:07 GMT
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-ports-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: c9a10ef42257 - main - misc/far2l: explain why we stick to g${DATE} as PORTVERSION for now.
Message-ID:  <202105171848.14HIm7pN055780@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by danfe:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=c9a10ef422579422f8008c4d07a3de7474c26aaa

commit c9a10ef422579422f8008c4d07a3de7474c26aaa
Author:     Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-17 18:45:56 +0000
Commit:     Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-17 18:46:58 +0000

    misc/far2l: explain why we stick to g${DATE} as PORTVERSION for now.
---
 misc/far2l/Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/misc/far2l/Makefile b/misc/far2l/Makefile
index 07d1dfa5817d..d6957f40766f 100644
--- a/misc/far2l/Makefile
+++ b/misc/far2l/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Created by: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
 
 PORTNAME=	far2l
+# Upstream tags (pre-)releases very rarely and irregularly, so keep using
+# the g${DATE} format even for tagged releases to avoid bumping PORTEPOCH
+# in case we'd have to use raw commit hashes again in the future.
 PORTVERSION=	g20210426
 CATEGORIES=	misc
 



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