[OpenWrt-Devel] SVN to GIT transition

Bruno Randolf br1 at thinktube.com
Tue Oct 13 18:15:47 EDT 2015


On 10/13/2015 09:08 PM, David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to track the revision number in an automated way
>>> even
>>> in a git repo?  So store the r number, and automatically increment on
>>> commits.  Not sure if that's an option, but it seems like it might
>>> address
>>> the problem.
>>>
>>
>> If a user is smart enough to commit something locally then he knows
>> what he is doing and is smart enough to report the changes he made.
>> It's so simple.
> 
> I think the concern is that someone may do this and then make the
> resulting images available to others to install.

One way to avoid the ambiguity of the r-number would be to use
"git describe origin/master" then even if the local master branch has
commits, you'd get the "upstream" revision number. But, I think it's
more important to know that there have been local changes.

bruno
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