Good point Allen, I forgot about `hadoop version`. Since it's populated by a version-info.properties file, people can always cat that file.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@effectivemachines.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 1, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@effectivemachines.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 2:57 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Steve requested a git hash for this release. This led us into a brief > >> discussion of our use of git tags, wherein we realized that although > >> release tags are immutable (start with "rel/"), RC tags are not. This is > >> based on the HowToRelease instructions. > > > > We should probably embed the git hash in one of the files that > gets gpg signed. That's an easy change to create-release. > > > (Well, one more easily accessible than 'hadoop version')