I know a lot of other projects with git use the build date for version numbering. If we also include the hour in UTC it we can have several builds in a day and it will be easy to understand which executable is the newest.
best Max On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:46:19 +0200 Daniel Schürmann <dasch...@mixxx.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > <https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/commit/e1f6cd9f2e2a539ed2d675c1f0213821522585f0> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
