Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 19:26:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "Sideropoulos, Alexander" <Alexander.Sideropoulos@netapp.com> Cc: freebsd-git@freebsd.org, "Maxwell, Larus" <Larus.Maxwell@netapp.com> Subject: Re: SVN Revision-Like IDs in Git Message-ID: <CANCZdfoh85FWJ5wfkDAZzxKwcAwTTy7Dht4BUHJ=JT_L7pDH8g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <013F16E7-DDBB-4C2F-829D-D08B53CC7585@netapp.com> References: <013F16E7-DDBB-4C2F-829D-D08B53CC7585@netapp.com>
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 4:01 PM Sideropoulos, Alexander < Alexander.Sideropoulos@netapp.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > According to this page... > > https://hackmd.io/_lvyl1CfTsayB3L0v4fmLA#What%E2%80%99s-with-the-funny-revision-hashes-I-want-revision-numbers > > ...there are no plans to provide an SVN-revision-like ID for Git commits > once the switch-over happens. > > At NetApp, we rely on the SVN revision number to uniquely identify our > FreeBSD baseline and every cherry-picked patch we apply on top of it. We > could update all our tooling to accept Git hashes, but this is not a small > task. And I imagine we are not the only downstream project reliant upon SVN > revision numbers. > > Since the SVN revision ID is really just an arbitrary number, has there > been any thought in simply continuing to manufacture these numbers for Git > commits going forward? It could even be a post-commit operation where the > Git notes are updated with a unique (increasing) ID, just as is done today. > > Thoughts? > Git has the ability to generate a number of commits since the last tag (or maybe arbitrary tag). That is appropriately the same thing if you don't need temporal stability between branches... Warner > --ap > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-git@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-git > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-git-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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