Update does not work correctly with reused branches about mint HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @zweigraf, thanks for posting the issue.
Yes, I see the problem. We should checkout the remote branch, which should fix that. If you had time to make a PR that would be great. Otherwise I’ll have a look at this next week.

In terms of the repo name and executable name mismatch, you would have to specify the executable name on install as well. This won’t actually execute the tool, but just helps mint find what to install. I guess we could parse the Package.swift file and if it has any executable products and use that. Not every package defines those products though, so this would just be a fallback solution

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For the first issue: I am not planning on opening a PR yet, but maybe manually cleaning the checkouts folder annoys me enough at one point to still do it 😄

I see about the second issue. I was under the impression that Mint could maybe just copy everything in the SPM build folder that is marked executable, but there is a lot more in there, which I guess doesn't make sense.

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Subset of #18. (The main, branch issue that is.)

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For the executable name issue, let’s move the conversation to a distinct issue: #17.

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