Re: get Revision from Git (short Hash)

[Jim Jagielski]

> On Aug 14, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Matthias Seidel wrote:
>> We already have the build id, the build
>> date and now the git hash (which is a unique link to the last commit it
>> was based on)
>> This is how we did it with SVN, why should we change it?
> 
> Because we are dropping information. The SVN revisions are always increasing, 
> and thus (independent on the build date, which can be at any moment) I can 
> compare two builds and retain information on which came first.
> 
> With git of course this doesn't hold, i.e., you cannot say which commit came 
> earlier between abcd1234 and 5678abcd. So I see some added value if we enrich 
> it this way.
> 

Is that needed though? I had thought the basic reason for having the SVN ID is 
that the end-user knows, for sure, which SVN revision their app was built from.


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