[Opensim-dev] Opensim-dev] Git tags (again)

[Ai Austin]

>From: Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com>
>I know this has been discussed a few times before, but the automatic
>tags on every git commit are becoming a heavy burden. Today we talked
>again about stopping doing that. But rather than stopping the tags
>without replacement, a suggestion has been made to provide a web page
>that converts from git hashes to build numbers, so that everyone can
>still have an idea of sequential line of development.

The r/29250 style sequential  labels do provide a way to be able to 
identify commits or versions in date order - useful to trace through 
changes and identify where problems might have been introduced. It is 
also possible then to refer to such dated/sequential build points in 
Mantis issues and them make sense to other reporters.

I appreciate for the Git-technoliterati this may be easy from the Git 
hashes themselves and using the Git tools.. but for mere mortals it 
would be helpful to have some way to continue to refer to commits or 
builds in sequence/date order.  @Diva mentions the possibility of 
some sort of converter... but done one at a time that might still be 
difficult to trace back when finding where issues were introduced.  I 
have sometimes worked backward through twenty of more OpenSim viewgit 
pages trying to trace where issues arise.

But of course if the overhead of keeping the r/ style tags is a real 
problem that has to be the main factor in going forward.