Re: show precise repos version for dev builds?

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
> "svnversion" adds a "M" for modified on the status. There is an option with
> "git describe" to get something similar:
>
> git describe --long --always --all --dirty

I tried this out a bit:

[rhaas pgsql]$ git describe --long --always --all --dirty
heads/master-0-gd133982d59
[rhaas pgsql]$ git checkout head~
...blah blah...
[rhaas pgsql]$ git describe --long --always --all --dirty
heads/x-218-g6393613b6a

Eh, what? Hmm, maybe it's because I have a local branch called 'x'
lying around from something or other.

[rhaas pgsql]$ git branch -D x
Deleted branch x (was 77b6b5e9ce).
[rhaas pgsql]$ git describe --long --always --all --dirty
tags/REL_10_BETA3-458-g6393613b6a

Mmph. I understand the desire to identify the exact commit used for a
build somehow, but something whose output depends on whether or not I
left a branch lying around locally doesn't seem that great.

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Robert Haas
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