update:
Ok, forget the svn revision, we are on GIT:
I think we should do it like this:
http://eatmyrandom.blogspot.de/2010/06/automate-version-numbering-using-git.html
Here is a also nice different approach:
http://blog.marcingil.com/2011/11/creating-build-numbers-using-git-commits/
kind regards,
Daniel
2013/6/19 Daniel Schürmann <dasch...@mixxx.org>
> Hi
>
> while our GitHub move is proceeding fine, I miss hardly the consecutive
> revision number of Mixxx.
>
> Especially if we move ahead and release alpha test, every tester will
> hardly understand what is the difference between
>
>
> <https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/commit/e1f6cd9f2e2a539ed2d675c1f0213821522585f0>e1f6cd9f2e
> and 87bcffbf9bb ...
> Or should he better test 17facf9bfe6?
>
> We can solve it with Jenkins, if we integrate the Jenkins build number,
> but that is not the same, because the number does not directly depends on
> the source itself and it is not reproachable for client builds.
>
> I have just found out, that GitHub actually has a consecutive revision
> number for every repro.
> You can query it using the Subversion api like that:
>
> svn info https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/ | sed -ne 's/^Revision: //p'
>
> Compared to the Bazaar revno, which was unique for a single branch, the
> Subversion Revision Number is unique for the whole repository.
>
> Unfortunately (as far as I understand) this number can only queried
> directly from GitHub and is not included in a local git clone. So it looks
> like this is unhandy for our approach.
>
> So what do you think, Is this number a suitable replacement for bzr revno?
> Is there a smart way to include this number in our target builds. Can we
> use git hooks for this job?
> Or is there a better Idea?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1192288
>
> Kind regards
>
> Daniel
>
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> <https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/commit/e1f6cd9f2e2a539ed2d675c1f0213821522585f0>
>
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>
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