2008/12/19 Jerry D. Hedden <jdhed...@cpan.org>: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Steve Hay <steve...@planit.com> wrote: >> Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >>> 2008/12/19 karl williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com>: >>>> Two things: when I do as above using rsync, I merely get a list of >>>> the valid perl sources. If I change the :: to a slash, I actually >>>> get the files. However, .patch contains >>>> "blead 20081219.17:05:08 b1fccde5a5d6d9eece3886ce5cb9dc7b9027bee2" >>>> which doesn't compile well. >>> >>> What is exactly the problem with that ? I don't think anything relies >>> on .patch being an integer, but I might be wrong. >> >> Nothing wrong with it here. I did a little smoke test using the new >> rsync source earlier, and it built fine (see attached). > > It may work, but those type of change numbers are not "human readable".
You get the branch name, the timestamp, (on which you can do a lexicographic comparison), and the SHA1 of the head. How more human readable can we get ?