On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100
James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100
> James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200
> > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice
> > > > that it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create
> > > > your own snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from
> > > > 20150423? Try,
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt/archive/665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677.tar.gz
> > > > 
> > > > Put COMMIT=665b0223ee27547175dc327a386fcd88243c7677 in the
> > > > ebuild, stick that in $SRC_URI and $S, and then future
> > > > snapshots will work without modification.      
> > > 
> > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to
> > > commit ?    
> > 
> > You can't.  
> 
> Sorry, let me correct that, you can't by date but you can by $PV if
> they have created versioned git tags. Just swap the commit reference
> for the tag name.

We're talking of repos without tags :)

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