Ok, Thank you Joe and Bryan for the clarification and options.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:27 AM Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want to compare the actual content of the source, you could do > something like: > > git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/nifi.git > git -C nifi checkout <RELEASE-COMMIT> > diff --brief -r nifi-rc-source nifi > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:18 AM Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Chad, > > > > You basically want to ensure that a given release tag matches what we'd > > expect. In this case we're doing a 1.11.2 release so you'd want it to be > > 1.11.1 plus updates. > > > > > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=nifi.git;a=log;h=6d2ec87c8a46d5d39f3b4683e4ea9dec91138d52 > > > > That link and the resulting history shows that it is based off a certain > > commit from master that resulted in 1.11.0 and then a support branch for > > 1.11.x which resulted in 1.11.1 plus some new commits which is now > 1.11.2. > > You can also verify that the content of the previous commit before the > > actual release tag is present in the release as well by comparing the > diff > > to the source itself. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:13 AM Chad Zobrisky <czobri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I was going through the guide over the weekend and hit the step about > > > verifying the RC was branched off the correct git commit. Is this done > just > > > via looking in git at the commit for the tag and that the release vote > > > email has the same commit hash in it , or is the commit hash put > somewhere > > > in the source/build to verify there? > > > > > > Hope that makes sense. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chad > > > >