Re: No upstream versioning
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +1000, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of
> the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was
> roughly 5 months ago)
Their commit date. The reason is there is at least some way of
tracing back to where you got that particular tar file.
So if I saw 20131224 I could look at the git log and see perhaps
you went from commit on 24 Dec 2013.
Your download date could be anything from their commit date to (if you
lived in New Zealand and waited 30 minutes) tomorrow's date.
That's really hard to work out.
Oh, and you don't get oddness like this:
* They commit and push 1st April
* They commit and don't push 2nd April
* You download on 5th April and use version 20140405
(you can't see their 2nd April commit)
* They eventually push their commits
* Why doesn't 20140405 have the commit for 2nd April?
- Craig
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