David, I like this idea, but I have to admit I have not even the slightest clue on how I should implement it...
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:30 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] version numbers from git repository > > I've been doing a lot of testing and can have a dozen > different copies of > rsyslog that all claim to be the same version number. > > the ability of git to give more precise versions (as described in the > message from the git mailing list below) would be handy in > eliminating > confusion. > > the nice thing is that if a person is using a tagged version, > this just > reports the tag with nothing extra, so changing the makefile > to use this > would not affect most people. > > David Lang > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:01:25 +0200 > From: Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> > To: Robin Rosenberg <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Robin Rosenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > s?ndag 27 september 2009 14:24:32 skrev Anteru > <[email protected]>: > >> Mercurial's revision number system: With git, I get an > SHA1 hash for > >> every commit, but it's not possible to see whether Hash1 > is newer than > >> Hash2, while Mecurial also adds a running number to each > commit. What's > > > > But those numbers cannot be communicated since they are > local to your > > clone. > > You can use git-describe, which will look for the latest tag, and make > a combo of latest tag, commits since the tag, short form of sha1. So > you get "v1.6.3-33-g1234" - 33 commits after 1.6.3. Works very well to > integrate in versioning. The git project itself uses it in the > Makefile to set the versions, same as the kernel folk do -- I use it > to version even RPM/DEBs. > > hth, > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
