From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:51:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtkchl6i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y240hd48.fsf@yucca> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:56:39 -0800")
Hello,
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
> How about using the output of git describe, which can unambigously
> include the most relevent tag, the number of commits since that tag, and
> the commit hash:
>
> $ git describe --long --abbrev=41
> v1.3.0-13278-g60661adfb8ffa28e1acfcfea27c6cc2fc70f88fe
>
> $ git describe --long --abbrev=41 v1.3.0
> v1.3.0-0-ga0178d34f582b50e9bdbb0403943129ae5b560ff
What does ‘git checkout’ do when passed such a string? Does it ignore
the tag part?
> I *think* I've used such git references in the commit field of packages
> before, and guix seemed fine with it. Occasionally, I've seen git
> describe pick an odd tag to base on. Not sure how it interacts with
> software heritage, or multiple tags, or renamed tags... but in theory it
> could work, and would allow us to detect tag changes "upstream".
For SWH, we need either a tag or a commit ID.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-28 20:55 On raw strings in <origin> commit field Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-29 8:39 ` zimoun
2021-12-29 20:25 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-30 12:43 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 0:02 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 1:23 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 3:27 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 9:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-12-31 11:07 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 12:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-12-31 13:18 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 13:15 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 15:19 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 17:21 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 20:52 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 23:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 1:33 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-01 5:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 10:33 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-01 20:37 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 22:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-02 22:57 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-03 21:25 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-03 23:14 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-04 19:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-04 23:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-05 9:28 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-05 20:43 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-06 10:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-06 11:25 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-02 19:30 ` zimoun
2022-01-02 21:35 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-03 9:22 ` zimoun
2022-01-03 18:13 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-03 19:07 ` zimoun
2022-01-03 20:19 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-03 23:00 ` zimoun
2022-01-04 5:23 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-04 8:51 ` zimoun
2022-01-04 13:15 ` zimoun
2022-01-04 19:45 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-04 19:53 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 23:56 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 0:15 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-30 1:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-12-30 12:56 ` zimoun
2021-12-31 3:15 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-12-31 7:57 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-12-31 10:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-01 1:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 11:12 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-01 17:45 ` Timothy Sample
2022-01-01 19:52 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-02 23:00 ` Timothy Sample
2022-01-03 15:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-01 20:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-01 23:20 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-02 12:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-01-02 14:09 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-01-02 2:07 ` Bengt Richter
2021-12-31 17:56 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-01-03 15:51 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-01-03 16:29 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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