I'll try to carve out some time this summer to work on a means to automatically check for the latest program version on the wsjt-x website. I talked about it last fall, but got really busy. I'm really not any less busy now, but it's time to get that 'feature' going. -Brian N9ADG
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:43 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not deriding git at all. The rev# is a common question in git. > > One other idea that is more git-centric...how about we use date + 6 digit > for the About revision? This would also help solve those who think RCn is > more current than the general release. > > git log --date-format=:%Y%m%d > Marry that with the current revision#. > > So we'd end up with a human friendly 20180702/308245 > > de Mike W9MDB > > > > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 3:36:19 AM CDT, Bill Somerville > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/07/2018 04:49, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote: > > We will be seeing more of this same question in the future I'm sure so some > consideration should be given to making it a one-up counter again perhaps > appending it to the 6-digit git number. > > Mike, > > we have seen the same question with svn revision numbers but you still > ignore that svn has the same issue because it supports branching but > revision numbers are not incremented separately for each branch. Here's a > simple example: > > trunk e.g. v2.0.0 gets a change, let's say revision number r1000. A fix is > applied to an old branch e.g. 1.0.1 for fix an urgent defect only in that > old branch, let's say that is revision r1001. So you are saying that > revision numbers allow a user to determine the latest version. So who has > the latest version, is it r1001 which is version1.0.1 or is it r1000 which > is version 2.0.0? > > This should make it perfectly clear that svn revision numbers tell us > nothing about the logical linage of a code line. Stop deriding git as a > version control system using invalid arguments please. > > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
