Translations:Create Manjaro Packages/30/en
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This is particularly useful if you are making git/svn/hg/etc. packages, where the build process may remain the same, but the source could be updated every day, even every hour. The old way of doing this was to put the date into the pkgver field which, if the software was not updated, makepkg would still rebuild it thinking the version had changed. Some useful commands for this are git describe, hg identify -ni, etc. Please test these before submitting a PKGBUILD, as a failure in the pkgver() function can stop a build in its tracks.