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I've decided to make git-credential-manager an optional dependency this update because it's only needed when using user:password authentication on third-party resources (like GitHub), but if you're using an ssh key, this is completely avoided.

Good catch, fixed it

deb now use zstd, so in prepare function, the data.tar.xz should be data.tar.zst

Good point about the DEB automatically handled by makepkg, I will pay attention on this. Anyway, thank you for considering my proposal !

I've refactored the pkgbuild to use the .deb package, thanks @SoftExpert!

In your original patch, you extract the already extracted .deb (which is extracted by makepkg) and later extract the already extracted data.tar.xz, just to let you know why it doesn't look exactly as you suggested.

Yes, I know how to handle this properly, I just don't like it. Your argument about size is enough for me, will do that in the meantime.

For me there are 2 arguments:

1. the size (AppImage is 21819712 bytes, while the DEB is 16049836 bytes)

2. my own personal preference towards the binaries clearly stored in a folder instead of the overhead of the AppImage :)

As for the management of the revision, it can be easily handled with a variable like this _binrev :

...
_name=${pkgname%-bin}
_binrev=1
pkgver=8.22.1
...

source=("https://github.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_name}_${pkgver}-${_binrev}_amd64.deb"

edit: fixed a typo

@SoftExpert

When using DEB packages, the package revision must be taken into account. Although it will probably always be 1 for SourceGit, I chose AppImage to save myself the trouble.

If you can tell me why AppImage is worse than deb, I will refactor the package accordingly.

With this PKGBUILD I can install from the DEB package ...

# Maintainer: Aikawa Yataro <aikawayataro at protonmail dot com>

pkgname=sourcegit-bin
_name=${pkgname%-bin}
pkgver=8.22.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="GUI client for GIT users"
arch=('x86_64')
url='https://github.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit'
license=('MIT')
provides=('sourcegit')
conflicts=('sourcegit')
depends=('git' 'git-credential-manager' 'xdg-utils')

#source=("https://github.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_name}-${pkgver}.linux.x86_64.AppImage"
source=("https://github.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_name}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb"
        'sourcegit.desktop'
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sourcegit-scm/sourcegit/v${pkgver}/LICENSE")
sha256sums=('39f72ad2741659601410017d128758f37a43c90a7992f2e94baed8943f75b91c'
            'c7b0c0c889af49537161f74f4d4d3b72e13b635e4a10ea43df55348bfae18862'
            '6cef41c8a297f46faafe40016ffcce9d968b3722048b81cd768fdbaa1be02ca1')

package() {
    bsdtar -O -xf ${_name}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb data.tar.xz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf -
    tar xf "${srcdir}"/data.tar.xz

    cp -ar usr/share "${pkgdir}/usr"
    cp -ar opt/${_name} "${pkgdir}/opt"
    rm "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/${_name}.png"

#    install -d "$pkgdir/opt/$_name/"
#    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"

#    cp -r squashfs-root/usr/bin/* "$pkgdir/opt/$_name/"
#    ln -s "/opt/$_name/$_name" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_name"

    install -Dm644 sourcegit.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_name}.desktop"
#    install -Dm644 squashfs-root/com.sourcegit-scm.SourceGit.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$_name.png"
    install -Dm644 usr/share/icons/${_name}.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/${_name}.png"
    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
}

sourcegit.desktop needs to be adjusted to this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Source Git
Comment=Open-source & Free Git GUI Client
Exec=/opt/sourcegit/sourcegit
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/sourcegit.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development

Why not use the DEB package instead of AppImage ?