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Re: [git] regarding qualifiers...
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Has anyone successfully used qualifiers that are based on Git
revisions in a Tycho build? I am looking for a solution that manages
versions and qualifiers based on revision history to avoid increasing
versions in each build even when artifacts haven't changed.
Thanks,
Steffen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Matthias Sohn
<matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/1/24 Eric Gwin <eric.gwin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a question for all those who went before...
>>
>> We are in the process of converting from SVN to Git. One major difference
>> is that Git doesn't use revision numbers, and we had solved a potential
>> issue with qualifiers by making use of them:
>>
>> When the bundles are built, .qualifier is replaced by the actual qualifier
>> usually .v<builddate><time> the issue is that if my code is four days old
>> the bundles would still be built using the current system timestamp, so
>> tracking nightly builds vs engineering bundles becomes an issue.
>>
>> We opted to set the qualifier to .v<builddate>-r<svn revision>, so that
>> we'd always be able to tie the build to the codebase. After the move we
>> won't be able to. I could generate a tag for every build but I'd rather not
>> deal with the overhead, I could ignore the issue (I'm certain it'll bite us
>> eventually though), or I could try to stamp based on the date/time of last
>> check-in.
>>
>> I'm wondering what other teams have done, and if anyone more familiar with
>> git can tell me if option 3 is even possible, and if so how it was
>> accomplished.
>
>
> If you want a qualifier describing the source version you may consider to
> use
> git describe [1]. It allows to describe the distance from the last tag and
> to identify the
> built commit without tagging each built version.
>
> [1] http://schacon.github.com/git/git-describe.html
>
> --
> Matthias
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