Re: [Hamlib-developer] Hamlib 4.6.4 release

[Nate B. <n0...@n0...>]

* On 2025 19 Jul 04:18 -0500, gm3zza--- via Hamlib-developer wrote:
> 
> 
> Now to get 4.6.4 installed on debian, should be a lot easier.
> 
> Silly me, of course it wasn't. I've forgotten how to use git to get a
> specific branch so just gone ahead with the latest 4.7-git instead.
> And this time my notebook failed me 🙁.

Since 4.6.4 is now released, one should just download the release
tarball that has no need to use git.

To clone a specific branch, from the script I use to do just that:

git clone -b Hamlib-4.6.3 https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib.git hamlib

Note that I did not create a Hamlib-4.6.4 branch!  4.6.4 is a collection
of cherry-picked commits to fix bugs found after 4.6.3 and lives in the
Hamlib-4.6.3 branch.

I also do the same for the daily snapshots:

git clone -b master https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib hamlib

In this case it just speeds up the cloning process a bit since all the
refs for the different branches aren't retrieved.  For an ordinary clone
where all the repository history is wanted, I would not recommend this.

73, Nate

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