On Tuesday 23 June 2009 22:56:50 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:18:44 Rob Landley wrote:
> > The old svn snapshots used to include the .svn directory, so you could do
> > an svn info on them and see which repository version the snapshot was
> > from.
> >
> > How do you get the corresponding info from the new nightly snapshots
> > created from the git archive?  When I download busybox-snapshot.tar.bz2
> > and find a bug in it, how do I say which version it was in?
>
> there isnt any such info in the tarball afaik.

Darn it.  Mercurial's had ".hg_archival.txt" in its tarballs for years with 
the version information, I just assumed git had _something_.

> easiest change would be to
> stick the hash into the dirname since `git archive --prefix=...` is easy.
> sticking files into the stream is not.

*shrug*  Works for me.

Thanks,

Rob
-- 
Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds
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