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Fix Microsoft Git install to use releases API for latest, lts, and current versions #77

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Fix Microsoft Git install to use releases API for 'latest'
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Treat lts, current, and latest as synonyms using releases API
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Bump Microsoft Git version to 1.0.7
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions src/microsoft-git/devcontainer-feature.json
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{
"name": "Microsoft Git for monorepo with GVFS support",
"id": "microsoft-git",
"version": "1.0.6",
"version": "1.0.7",
"description": "A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches",
"options": {
"version": {
"type": "string",
"proposals": [
"latest",
"2.43.0.vfs.0.0",
"2.42.0.vfs.0.3",
"2.40.1.vfs.0.2",
"2.39.2.vfs.0.0",
"2.38.1.vfs.0.1"
"2.50.1.vfs.0.2",
"2.50.1.vfs.0.1",
"2.50.1.vfs.0.0",
"2.49.0.vfs.0.4",
"2.49.0.vfs.0.3"
],
"default": "latest",
"description": "Select version of Microsoft Git, if not latest."
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions src/microsoft-git/install.sh
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# Partial version matching
if [ "$(echo "${GIT_VERSION}" | grep -o '\.' | wc -l)" != "2" ]; then
requested_version="${GIT_VERSION}"
version_list="$(curl -sSL -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/git/tags?per_page=100" | grep -oP '"name":\s*"v\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.vfs\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"' | tr -d '"' | sort -rV)"
if [ "${requested_version}" = "latest" ] || [ "${requested_version}" = "lts" ] || [ "${requested_version}" = "current" ]; then
GIT_VERSION="$(echo "${version_list}" | head -n 1)"
# For latest, lts, and current, use the releases API to get the actual latest release
GIT_VERSION="$(curl -sSL -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/git/releases/latest" | grep -oP '"tag_name":\s*"v\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.vfs\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"' | tr -d '"')"
else
# For partial versions, use the existing tags logic
version_list="$(curl -sSL -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/git/tags?per_page=100" | grep -oP '"name":\s*"v\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.vfs\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"' | tr -d '"' | sort -rV)"
set +e
GIT_VERSION="$(echo "${version_list}" | grep -E -m 1 "^${requested_version//./\\.}([\\.\\s]|$)")"
set -e
if [ -z "${GIT_VERSION}" ] || ! echo "${version_list}" | grep "^${GIT_VERSION//./\\.}$" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Invalid git version: ${requested_version}" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
if [ -z "${GIT_VERSION}" ] || ! echo "${version_list}" | grep "^${GIT_VERSION//./\\.}$" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ -z "${GIT_VERSION}" ]; then
echo "Invalid git version: ${requested_version}" >&2
exit 1
fi
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