Why branches instead of tags? about pre-commit HOT 4 CLOSED

Point to the hash, if you don't want update.

It's not pinned tag, it's Prettier version, we do updates even Prettier has no new version.

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@bgusach this is now fixed in https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-prettier

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Any problem?

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Well, yes... generally speaking versions are pinned in order to avoid unexpected changes. Per definition, a branch is not a specific version. A hash or a well respected tag is.

If I refer to a branch instead of a tag, my code may work today but tomorrow somebody pushes something new, exciting and broken and boom there you go, I have a headache. I don't like headaches 😅.

And not unexpectedly, this doesn't work with pre-commit autoupdate as it just fetches the hash of main, because of the aforementioned lack of tags:

> pre-commit autoupdate --repo https://github.com/prettier/pre-commit
Updating https://github.com/prettier/pre-commit ... [INFO] Initializing environment for https://github.com/prettier/pre-commit.
updating v2.1.1 -> 36b76b1cf9df45924c11f7a06756a12c9f6cf6c2.

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