[Opensim-dev] The return of short version numbers (as tags)

[Teravus Ovares]

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Regards

Teravus

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Frisby, Adam<adam at deepthink.com.au> wrote:
> Where do we see this number? And is there any way to easily translate between the two?
>
> Adam
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
>> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Sean Dague
>> Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 5:14 AM
>> To: opensim-dev
>> Subject: [Opensim-dev] The return of short version numbers (as tags)
>>
>> Late last week I found a script that tags each changeset that comes
>> into the server with an increasing number.  When you pull on master,
>> you'll see these tags now flow down.
>>
>> Because the nature of distributed version control, this is only going
>> to give you a rough idea of forward or backward in time.  Commits are
>> made locally, and only when merged into the master server do they get
>> an id.
>>
>> http://github.com/opensim/opensim/network will give an idea of the
>> complex dance of changesets and why this is never going to be fully
>> linear.
>>
>> But, that being said, the lack of a short version number like that is
>> the #1 issue (by vocalness) that people were having with git.
>> Hopefully this helps that.
>>
>> This short version number only means anything if you are getting your
>> tree from the main opensim archive.
>>
>>       -Sean
>>
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>>
>> Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
>> sdague at gmail.com                                 Linux Users Group
>> http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org
>>
>> There is no silver bullet.  Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than
>> zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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