Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:20:42 +0100 From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: Michael Grimm <trashcan@ellael.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git and the loss of revision numbers Message-ID: <X%2BS/2j1483wb%2BMgB@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> In-Reply-To: <54116640-E6A1-4C53-9D7E-4384F942628E@ellael.org> References: <54116640-E6A1-4C53-9D7E-4384F942628E@ellael.org>
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Michael Grimm:
> If I do understand it correctly, the switch from svn to git comes with a loss of continuously increasing revision numbers.
Correct.
> 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?
For over TWENTY YEARS, FreeBSD advisories have already contained
the date when the problem was corrected, e.g.:
Topic: Several vulnerabilities in procfs [REVISED]
Category: core
Module: procfs
Announced: 2000-12-18
Reissued: 2000-12-29
Affects: FreeBSD 4.x and 3.x prior to the correction date.
Corrected: 2000-12-16 (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE)
2000-12-18 (FreeBSD 3.5.1-STABLE)
I think it is safe to assume that this practice will continue after
the switch to Git.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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