Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:14:27 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git snapshots, PORTVERSION, PORTEPOCH Message-ID: <20090224141427.6edba93d@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20090224031800.GB19899@over-yonder.net> References: <86bpsw2tbf.fsf@gmail.com> <20090221104501.06e778f1@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20090224031800.GB19899@over-yonder.net>
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--Sig_/NtVgRMDZ5pItARVRs5n_uHW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:18:00 -0600 "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:45:01AM +0200 I heard the voice of > Ion-Mihai Tetcu, and lo! it spake thus: > >=20 > > Since you have the date, you can easily get the git magic string. >=20 > Not necessarily true at all, in VCS's that don't limit to single-line > history. Consider the case where I'm working on a feature in a > private branch since 2000-01-01. You take a snapshot of the trunk > branch on 2000-02-01. My branch is merged on 2000-03-01. >=20 > Now on 2000-04-01, somebody wants to look back and figure out which > revision corresponds to your timestamp. There are at least 2 paths > through the history that could have a commit at [to any arbitrary > granularity] the exact same date/time; there could well be more, on an > active project. Depending on the particular system and workflow, it > may not even be theoretically possible to figure out which is referred > to, short of doing full source comparisons; it can certainly be > non-trivial in many cases. 1. Is this true in git case? 2. I wouldn't use a VCS that doesn't let me check out a version of the sources as they were at a specific date in a given branch (including HEAD). it's an anti-feature that negates the idea of VCS IMO. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/NtVgRMDZ5pItARVRs5n_uHW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmj5KkACgkQJ7GIuiH/oeVhLgCgiHBFblBHC4zs8Ae5feo0iBb8 LjUAoIBHYIbfe2gK+oMNUypjw3LnI3uS =GrZk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/NtVgRMDZ5pItARVRs5n_uHW--
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