On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 2:58 PM Jonathan Bedard via webkit-dev < webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> Hello contributors, > > As we move forward with the transition to GitHub, we are starting to adopt > identifiers <https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/commit-identifiers> in tooling > and infrastructure. This is going to take a few weeks, but you will start > seeing links based on identifiers more frequently. During this transition > period, not all tooling will work with identifiers, and it’s possible there > are tools you rely on that aren’t in common use so will be slow in > receiving support. To that end, I would like to share the tools available > to translate between hashes, revisions and identifiers in WebKit, along > with the Python libraries backing that tooling if you feel motivated to > expedite the transition for a workflow that is particularly important to > you. > > Tools/Scripts/git-webkit find <ref> is the local script that can convert > between revisions, hashes and identifiers. By default, it uses your local > checkout, which means it may be restricted by your checkout’s > configuration. For example, a pure Subversion checkout will be unable to > convert hashes and a pure Git checkout will be unable to convert revisions, > while a Git-Svn checkout will be able to translate all three formats. > > If you want to be certain that a hash or revision can be converted to an > identifier, running Tools/Scripts/git-webkit -C > https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit find <ref> or > Tools/Scripts/git-webkit > -C https://github.com/WebKit/Webkit find <ref> are options. These command > operate entirely on the network, instead of relying on your local checkout. > > Both variations of git-webkit find are ultimately thin wrappers around > webkitscmpy local.Scm and remote.Scm classes, so if you find yourself > working with Python code, consider leveraging the APIs directly. > > Lastly, along with redirecting to trac/GitHub, the site > https://commits.webkit.org has a JSON API which vends a representation of > a commit which includes the hash, revision and identifier and looks like > this: https://commits.webkit.org/234036@main/json. commits.webkit.org is > a service we are dedicated to maintaining permanently, since it allows us > to vend commit links with identifiers instead of hashes. > Can we add some simple UI to that site so that it's more human friendly? - R. Niwa
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