Hi Ludo, On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 11:27, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis: > > > In particular, the "Version From To" table is hard to grasp to a > > newcomer. > > I’m not a newcomer but I find it limpid: I think it immediately shows > that this is about version changes and when they happened. Maybe it > could be decluttered a bit by using shorter date strings (like > “Oct. 1st” instead of “2020-10-01 18:42:00”). On my side, short date and short commit hash appearing (avoiding the click) would be nice. :-) > BTW, when looking at /output-history, the commits in “From” and “To” can > be a bit confusing. Take: > > > https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/openmpi/output-history > > I see “To” pointing to > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=ec2a8f602ee0fd2fac2210eeae6d1da091bb47e4>, > a commit that changes ‘mpd’, which ‘openmpi’ doesn’t depend on; this is > completely bogus. However, the next “From” points to the right commit: > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=d623ece56624fd7d611cdaf42f728b21d89fec5c>. > > It’s surprising that “To” and the immediately following “From” are not > the same. I recently have a very similar issue [1]. And based on my investigations [2], the issue seems "commit date vs author date"; especially when merges are floating around. Because of that, from "From" to "To" is not always accurate. Chris, could you confirm? 1: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-10/msg00084.html> 2: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-10/msg00096.html> All the best, simon
