Bug 764422

Summary:	git-r3.eclass: Please document EGIT_OVERRIDE_* for manpage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jospezial <jospezial>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen, matoro_gentoo, negril.nx+gentoo
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description jospezial 2021-01-08 05:03:30 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/eclass/git-r3.eclass?id=17d7a4564177b1985e4b7e8f23a8efbc4d5c32ae
"git-r3.eclass: Support more flexible EGIT_OVERRIDE_* APIs for user"

Please add more documentation about that into the git-r3.eclass so that it goes into the manpage and at https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/git-r3.eclass/index.html .
Please add examples for EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_DATE and EGIT_COMMIT_DATE.

I wanted to use the date 20210106 for a git based pre-release ebuild but it only works if I convert it to 2021-01-06 . For this I have to do extra work in the ebuild. Would this be possible to implement it in the eclass?
There should be a check for wrong date format and not fetch head instead.

Is it advised to use EGIT_OVERRIDE_* instead of EGIT_COMMIT_* also in the ebuild file or on the command line only?

Comment 1 jospezial 2021-07-28 23:43:24 UTC

I tried:
EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_DATE_PLASMA_*="2021-07-12" emerge -v1 kwin plasma-workspace kwayland-server

but it looks as wildcards in are not possible in variables.
bash says: -su: EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_DATE_PLASMA_*=2021-07-12: Kommando nicht gefunden.
(command not found)

So how can I do a @live-rebuild but checkout the kde gits at specific date?
I don't want to write EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_DATE_... for every single one.
EGIT_COMMIT_DATE would do it for all packages I rebuild.