[OpenWrt-Devel] SVN to GIT transition

[David Lang]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> On 2015-10-12 16:11, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
>> On 12 October 2015 at 16:34, Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org> wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-12 15:09, Javier Domingo Cansino wrote:
>>>>     Right now, the revision number (r<something>) is really useful to figure
>>>>     out what particular openwrt version is being used, when people report
>>>>     bugs. The commit hash cannot be used as a replacement, since it might be
>>>>     one that isn't present in the official repo.
>>>>     When using tags as a starting point (via git describe), somebody has to
>>>>     create those tags, which is cumbersome (and would mean adding lots of
>>>>     useless ones).
>>>>
>>>> The tags would be the major versions and RCs. I don't believe other tags
>>>> should be used.
>>>>
>>>> Apart from that, I understand that if someone cloned the SVN repo (full
>>>> svn history), created it's own server, and developed on top of a given
>>>> revision X, the same problem would arise.
>>> I haven't seen a single instance of somebody doing this, and in my
>>> opinion it would be kind of stupid anyway :)
>>> We don't even advertise the SVN server URL to users anymore for a reason.
>>>
>>
>> IMO git describe --dirty would work perfectly. You would see a short
>> hash and if user modified it or not.
> If the user made a local commit, the short hash becomes useless.

if the user does a SVN checkout and then modifies things, the r<number> is also 
not valid (although it does give you an idea where things branched)

David Lang
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