From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, 53163@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#53163] [PATCH] doc: Document some reasons for/against git tags/commits.
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:36:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <855630e60e664bb9ad57f1e07479e393b4f8fa06.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61f01b2b439db750424023bb2555865ff8139255.camel@telenet.be>
Hi,
Am Montag, dem 10.01.2022 um 22:08 +0100 schrieb Maxime Devos:
> A v2 patch with the suggestions applied is attached.
LGTM, but let's wait for more opinions. Since this does concern Guix
as a whole I don't want to be the sole dictator here.
>
> > In the particular case of minetest, we
> > have an external map of "tags" to commits that can be queried, but
> > for
> > most repos I fear the tags would simply be lost to time.
>
> Here "tags" = releases on content.minetest.net, and not Git tags?
Yep, "tags" = contentdb releases, I forgot the terminology here :)
> >
> > That's a general question that has not reached a conclusion yet.
> > IIRC the goal was to make tags more robust by replacing them with
> > git-describe like tags. This would also make it easier to port
> > between revisioned commit and tagged one, since one would have to
> > let-bind commit either way.
>
> FWIW, the git updater in (guix upstream) might need to be modified to
> support the "git describe" style in commit fields, and a linter
> to verify that the tag+number corresponds to the commit (to
> avoid some ‘tricking peer review’ issues), but otherwise this
> seems rather nice to me. I didn't investigate closely though.
Yeah, in my opinion we'd also want a (git-tag VERSION COMMIT) procedure
to produce it, which is definitely c-u material. And obviously long
hashes would be required.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-10 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 15:27 [bug#53163] [PATCH] doc: Document some reasons for/against git tags/commits Maxime Devos
2022-01-10 19:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-10 21:08 ` Maxime Devos
2022-01-10 21:36 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2022-01-26 11:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-30 9:35 ` Maxime Devos
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