[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney has moved to git

[David Houlden]

On Thursday 10 November 2011 13:39:30 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on Thursday 10 November 2011 12:47:40 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:37 AM, David Houlden <djhoulden at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > On Thursday 10 November 2011 01:49:28 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > > the move to git has been completed.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for information and the tutorial. I have a couple of questions.
> > > Apologies in advance if I'm jumping the gun and they are being worked
> > > on.
> > > 
> > > 1. There used to be an SVN revision number displayed in the About
> > > KMyMoney dialog. This is now gone. Will it be replaced by a git
> > > reference? If we report
> > > bugs after building from git master how should we report the exact
> > > version we
> > > are running? Maybe the commit number from "git log -1"?
> > 
> > Each commit has a unique hash. That's enough to locate it even if it's
> > present in several branches. You also have a date and time for each
> > commit, in case you need help locating it in the log.
> 
> I played a bit with it here locally. I currently see:
> 
>  4.6.90-bko-238105-4.6.0-79-g8324cfb
> 
> '4.6.90' as contained in CMakeLists.txt
> 'bko-238105' as my local branch name I am currently on
> '4.6.0-79-g8324cfb' as generated by 'git describe'
> 
> Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me. The important thing is that it gives the developers enough 
information if a bug is reported. Can I suggest using some other character to 
break up the three elements to avoid confusion with all those - characters. 

Dave.