Hi Ed,
some comments in line below.
On 09/07/2018 16:59, Ed Wilson via wsjt-devel wrote:
I have enjoyed building and testing WSJT-X developmental releases over
the past few years and would like to continue to do so. I understand
that the move to GitHub has required some changes to the JTSDK build
process and I have followed Greg Beam's excellent instructions and
have successfully built the application. A build today (7/9/2018)
results in WSJT-X 1.9.2-devel with a number 308245 in the "About
WSJT-X" screen. May I assume that the number 308245 (in this case) is
a build number which will increment as commits are implemented by the
developers (similar to the previous release number)?
The WSJT projects have not moved to GitHub, they are still hosted on
Source Forge but we have migrated from the Subversion version control
system to the git distributed version control system. Source Forge
allows projects to use either system. The git DVCS offers many benefits
to the development team, some of which solved some immediate and
pressing issues, hence the switch.
Because of the distributed nature of git there is no entity that can
oversee any sort of incrementing revision number and because git also
allows more complex branching and merging change history, the concept of
such a revision number would make no sense anyway. Instead git forms an
unique hash code derived from the state of the sources, the commit
comment, the author's identity, the timestamp of the commit and the
parent commits of the commit. This hash code is a SHA-1 hash code that
has 40 hexadecimal digits but the first five or six are usually unique
and can be used as a shorthand (i.e. easier to read and type) substitute
for the whole hash code.
Greg has also indicated that one can see the history of the various
commits by running Git log...is this the best way to view these
commits or is there a GUI-based list that is accessible?
You can view the commit history of the project git repositories on
Source Forge just as you could before with Subversion. For example here
is the current commit history for the master branch on Source Forge for
the WSJT-X project:
https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/commit_browser
Does the WSJT-X 1.9.2 build 308245 implement all of the commits shown
in the Git log run today?
It contains all the changes included in the commit [308245] which at the
time of writing is the HEAD of the master branch i.e. the latest of the
published development code.
Thanks!
Ed, K0KC
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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