[mojo-dev] [jira] (MBUILDNUM-74) Need a way to format the revision number gathered from SCM.

[Baptiste Mathus (JIRA)]

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Baptiste Mathus commented on an issue   Re: Need a way to format the revision number gathered from SCM. I respectfully but deeply disagree with the sentence "full SHA has received from GIT is overkill for build identification purposes.". IMO, it actually isn't overkill, it is the only reliable way. Taking any other subset or variant is gonna give you a non sustainable solution for identifying the sources of a build in the long term. For example, if you take a short sha version like "abcd" because it's not ambiguous at the time of your build, you're likely to get screwed some day because with your repository history growing this is going to become ambiguous. Not marking this as won't fix for now, because if you can provide a use case we might reconsider this position. Thanks a lot for your interest. Add Comment   Mojo's Build Number Maven Plugin / MBUILDNUM-74 Need a way to format the revision number gathered from SCM. The full SHA has received from GIT is overkill for build identification purposes. I tried toying with the <format> and <items> keys, though this looks like it actually disables SCM integration. (Something that is not documented well at all.) Further, because this is using a MessageFormat and not the more flexible Formatter syntax, I'm not sure this co... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162-sha1:7af547c) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email