[Opensim-dev] Git tags (again)

[James Hughes]

+1

The git hashes are much more than a visual commit identifier, they are
the hash of the commit and ensure that the content in the commit is
valid. The tags can be easily changed and should not be relied on to
point to a particular commit. For keeping up with the timeline of
commits, the commit timestamp is good. I usually tag archives and
releases with the short hash and timestamp with this command ...

`git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%h-%ct`

which gives something like:  3aa9e78-1435144114 and contains both enough
of the hash to identify the commit along with the unix timestamp of the
commit time.

-BlueWall

On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 15:23 -0700, Diva Canto wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any objections?
> 
> Diva
> 
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