special tags for building from head of branch

[dbachelder]

If I am working on a third party library it would be great to have jitpack just always build from the head of my branch if it notices a new sha from the last build.

[jitpack-io]

Great idea! There's definitely a use case for that. The possible downside is that every time you ask for an artifact JitPack would have to check if there's a new commit on GitHub. So it might make builds a bit slower. I guess we could do the GitHub checks less often, say once an hour

[dbachelder]

How about an additional param flag that says "i need the absolute latest, I'm willing to wait" vs. "whatever version you last found, hourly or whatever"

[jitpack-io]

Now supporting -SNAPSHOT versions

[bryant1410]

But this only supports master, doesn't it?

[jitpack-io]

@bryant1410 This works for the repo's default branch so, yes, most of the time master.

[bryant1410]

Wouldn't it be nice to support any branch?

[jitpack-io]

It would be nice! Though not sure about the syntax yet... could be master-SNAPSHOT.