mxcl/homebrew — Issue #10544: Specify alternate git revision
Author: paddymul
Created: 2012-02-27 23:22:29+00:00
State: open

I wish there was an obvious way to not only specify a repository in a formula, which you can with the "head" attribute, I also want to be able to specify a revision and repository from the command line.

Here is my use case

The head version of emacs is breaking a feature that I find crucial in my setup. I want to point at an earlier tag "EMACS_PRETEST_24_0_93" and see if that version fixes my problem. Homebrew does an excellent job of running make and autoconfig, I want to keep that.

If I could override the git repository and revision for a formula from the command line it would be easier to try out experimental versions of software.