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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

In your example 7735 is the revno form the git repo (It is not related
to bzr). I had changed it with the git-commit keywork. I should be useful.

Le 26/02/2017 à 16:46, John Beard a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Would it be possible to get the ubuntu builds tagged with a commit
> hash? Version strings like  201702251416+7735~57~ubuntu16.10.1 are not
> very useful if you want to know exactly which commit a build relates
> to.
> 
> The exact commit is very useful when looking at a bug report from a
> nightly. If a regression arises between one nightly and the next, the
> date only approximately tells you where to start bisecting.
> 
> The Bzr-style rev number is almost entirely useless especially when
> the build is also tagged with a date, and Bzr is dead and gone.
> Date+git rev give you both an incrementing number for quick
> comparisons of age of build, and the git commit is an unambiguous
> pointer to the exact commit.
> 
> Nearly all "nightly" and "git tracker" pacakges (PPA, AUR, etc) put
> the git hash in the build number, pretty much for this exact reason.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
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