wayneeseguin/rvm — Issue #579: installing a ruby by revision number no longer works
Author: deryldoucette
Created: 2011-11-08 03:10:29+00:00
State: open

installing by revision number does not work anymore. according to rvm.beginrecueend.com/rubies/installing/ we support: rvm install 1.9.2-r32345 (where r32345 is the revision number) and we do not.)

```shell

∴ rvm install 1.9.2-r32345
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/me/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-r32345, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...

ruby-1.9.2-r32345 - #fetching
HEAD is now at 8f29ff7 * 2011-10-30
remote: Counting objects: 318, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (84/84), done.
remote: Total 199 (delta 160), reused 152 (delta 113)
Receiving objects: 100% (199/199), 30.94 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (160/160), completed with 71 local objects.
From git://github.com/ruby/ruby
8f29ff7..08cd580 ruby_1_9_3 -> origin/ruby_1_9_3
413f24d..ce19ae0 trunk -> origin/trunk
Branch ruby_1_9_2 set up to track remote branch ruby_1_9_2 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'ruby_1_9_2'
error: pathspec 'r32345' did not match any file(s) known to git.
ERROR: There has been an error while trying to checkout the source branch.
Halting the installation.
ERROR: There has been an error fetching the ruby interpreter. Halting the installation.
```