From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git transition checklist Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:52:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqiae26m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <87y52qqpmn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389207173 7682 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 18:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 19:52:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0yFM-000375-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:52:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0yFM-00032n-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0yFC-0002uN-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:52:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0yF6-0001XW-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:53407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0yF6-0001XR-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ300200IVUFZ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:52:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ3002EQJ3Q8X90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:52:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y52qqpmn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167787 Archived-At: > From: Achim Gratz > Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:45:20 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > If I run the above git command in the Emacs git repo, I get this: > > > > $ git describe --tags > > mh-e-8.5-4522-gaa5ae3b > > > > I doubt that we want this. We want the git sha1 value of the last > > commit instead, I think. > > With annotated release tags, you should drop the --tags option and only > the annotated tags are considered: > > .../emacs> git tag --annotate emacs-24.3-ann emacs-24.3 > .../emacs> git describe > emacs-24.3-ann-5712-g478ff9c I still don't see why not use 'git log' for this purpose. We don't want a description of the branch, we want the ID of the last commit on which the build is based. Using that, one can easily identify what was in the tree.