soraxas/shsh

how to use --gh-release to install specified version?

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aMOPel commented 
shsh install --gh-release=0.38.0 junegunn/fzf

would still install the latest version (0.39.0).

Or is version pinning not support so far?

it would be a great feature.

soraxas commented

Hi @aMOPel

The --gh-release=xxxx is used when you want to disambiguate release asset name. For example, if the release contain two asset named as ABC and DEF, you can do

shsh install --gh-release=DEF my/repo

to pick the latter.

For your usecase, you can use

shsh install --gh-release junegunn/fzf@0.38.0

to pin the version (it can either be any ref, like a release tag or commit id).

You might need to first upgrade to the latest version, with

shsh self-upgrade

because the previous version was not respecting the ref tag.

I've updated usage on readme to explain this usage.

aMOPel commented

Thank you! I eventually figured it out after reading the code a little and forgot to close this. Sorry.

I ended up forking your repo and adding a few features I was missing. I didn't make a pr since my code is rather ad hoc, but feel free to take inspiration.

https://github.com/aMOPel/shsh

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