On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> That brings up an interesting issue. Now that the live WMF sites are based
> on the wmf-deployment branch, should the code that works out the SVN
> revision be reporting the version of trunk which it was based on, the
> revision of the last commit to the wmf-deployment branch, or the HEAD
> revision of the repository at the point the code was last scapped?
I assume they're reporting the third, which should be only marginally
different from the second.
> The
> first (revision of trunk) would be most useful for what I expect is the most
> common use-case ("Has feature X made it into the live site?") but less
> useful for people wanting to replicate the WMF setup (i.e. "Which revision
> of the deployment branch is currently in use"). I am aware that the first
> option is more difficult (impossible?) to report, so perhaps that is not an
> option.
It would be more difficult, and it's not reliable anyway. A lot of
stuff ends up being merged in with the deployment branch commit by
commit.
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