[mythtv-users] I see major trouble ahead ...

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/2014 04:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> ...
>> Correct.  I date the ebuilds based on the date that I create the
>>
>> patches from fixes.  The ebuild contains the actual git commit, though
>> the commit rate on fixes isn't that high.  Gentoo needs an orderable
>> version number to detect upgrades/etc, and the date is as useful as
>> anything else since git doesn't offer anything adequate here.
>
> ...
>
> Git can produce a date if you like:
>
>     git log --pretty="%ci" HEAD^..HEAD
>
> returns the committer's date for the last commit:
>
>     2014-10-24 15:00:16 +0100
>
> (that's a 0.28-pre timestamp in case you're checking.)
>
> There are a bunch of format choices, 'git help log' has a list.
>

My point was more that a date is somewhat ambiguous since there could
be many commits on date, but there isn't really anything better to
use, since git lacks any kind of monotonically increasing identifier
otherwise.

--
Rich