Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:13:22 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> Cc: "Sideropoulos, Alexander" <Alexander.Sideropoulos@netapp.com>, "freebsd-git@freebsd.org" <freebsd-git@freebsd.org>, "Maxwell, Larus" <Larus.Maxwell@netapp.com> Subject: Re: SVN Revision-Like IDs in Git Message-ID: <CANCZdfrqvN=MErgAgyRZytR5FwfrPPsefRxDhq3fF=F68uUXWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1c82b615-6685-ec20-c6da-6e76035b3ef4@FreeBSD.org> References: <013F16E7-DDBB-4C2F-829D-D08B53CC7585@netapp.com> <1c82b615-6685-ec20-c6da-6e76035b3ef4@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:28 AM Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/6/20 6:01 PM, Sideropoulos, Alexander wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > According to this page... > > > https://hackmd.io/_lvyl1CfTsayB3L0v4fmLA#What%E2%80%99s-with-the-funny-revision-hashes-I-want-revision-numbers > > > > ...there are no plans to provide an SVN-revision-like ID for Git commits > once the switch-over happens. > > > > At NetApp, we rely on the SVN revision number to uniquely identify our > FreeBSD baseline and every cherry-picked patch we apply on top of it. We > could update all our tooling to accept Git hashes, but this is not a small > task. And I imagine we are not the only downstream project reliant upon SVN > revision numbers. > > > > Since the SVN revision ID is really just an arbitrary number, has there > been any thought in simply continuing to manufacture these numbers for Git > commits going forward? It could even be a post-commit operation where the > Git notes are updated with a unique (increasing) ID, just as is done today. > > > > Thoughts? > > I believe there will be git to svn replication for a while, so you could > possibly continue to use svn until the tooling is updated. > Be advised that this svn view may have a different set of r values than the current repo. Still working out those kinks.... Warner
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