[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney has moved to git

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi Alvaro Soliverez,

on Thursday 10 November 2011 14:45:58 you wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> 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?
> 
> I don't follow. Just noting the commit id should be enough to pinpoint the
> version that is running, and even running git bisect if needed to find a
> regression.
> The commit id is unique, no matter which branch it is in.

... reading a bit more about git ...

Is it what we get with

  git log -1 | head -n 1

I also wanted to somehow make sure that I see if there are local changes not 
in the (central) repository.

How would I get about finding out which version of user is running with only 
the commit log id? Sorry for asking, still learning.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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