Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:22:24 -0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git and the loss of revision numbers References: <54116640-E6A1-4C53-9D7E-4384F942628E@ellael.org>
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> Disclaimer: I just started to learn git, never used it before. > If I do understand it correctly, the switch from svn to git comes with a loss of continuously increasing revision numbers. Correct? If so I wonder how future security advisories and errata notices will be composed. Will there be a date of the commit besides its hash being reported? > In the past I could easily judge if there was a need to buildworld or buildkernel: If uname shows a larger revision number than those in advisories or notices. > Question: How may one find out whether to recompile or not in the future? > Thanks and regards, > Michael It is good to have a revision number available through uname -a or otherwise. Not sure about how Haiku does that, but Haiku uses tags that are noticeable when downloading (git clone or pull). I believe tags show the revision number. I haven't run Haiku in several years; all I have is USB-stick image from November 2012, downloaded 2014 (?), too old to be able to compile newer versions, and trying to cross-compile from FreeBSD or NetBSD has never been successful. Tom
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