Aren't the fingerprints effectively the same as what git submodules already
do? If we're going to start recording fingerprints, why not just move to
using submodules for the dependent repositories?

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, David Peixotto <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On May 22, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> > Interesting tool. Do you have a set of these fingerprints dating back
> > a year or more?
>
> No, unfortunately I just wrote the script after the discussion in this
> thread. I see it as a way to help in the future, but I don't think it will
> help with your current problem.
>
> Of course for it to be useful in the future we need to actually record the
> fingerprints somewhere. It seems we could either add Simons sync-all log
> command output to the builder output, or we could generate separate
> fingerprint files from a post-commit hook or a cron job. Having separate
> files is a bit cleaner, but perhaps more hassle.
>
> > Over the weekend I hacked together a tool (in Haskell) that can parse
> > the git logs of the various repositories and for a given date, put
> > together a bunch of git commit hashes (one for each repo) that should
> > work together.
>
> This sounds useful. If you wanted to generate your hashes in the
> fingerprint format (e.g. repo|hash) then the tools could be used together
> quite well.
>
>
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