[Vm-dev] About VM version string

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:32:17PM +0200, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>  
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > For the platforms sources on the git mirror with CMMakerVMMaker
> > build, some mechanism would be needed to identify version level.
> > Ian's build procedure on unix with Subversion works well for
> > this, but I don't know how to do the equivalent on the git
> > mirror. But I'm not really familiar with git, so hopefully
> > someone can suggest something here.
> >
> >
> For SVN you have the versions. Let say 2023. In Git, each commit has a
> commit hash, which looks something like:
> f3fe94c828f66cd0e7c37cfa3434e384ff65915e
> You can look at them throught gitorious or by doing "git log". Example:
> 
> ;-) /usr/local/git/bin/git log
> commit f3fe94c828f66cd0e7c37cfa3434e384ff65915e
> Merge: 1af7478 f123973
> Author: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Apr 4 08:46:21 2011 -0300
> 
>     Merge branch 'master' of gitorious.org:cogvm/blessed into integration
> 
> commit f1239738a1f14f6f067465e71dc24fd84f5a041e
> Author: Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Apr 4 12:49:55 2011 +0200
> 
>     Merge branch 'master' of gitorious.org:cogvm/blessed into svn-merge
> 
>     Conflicts:
>         image/VMMaker-Squeak4.1.changes
>         platforms/iOS/vm/iPhone/iPhone.image
>         platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixMain.c
>         platforms/win32/vm/sqWin32Window.c
>         src/plugins/ADPCMCodecPlugin/ADPCMCodecPlugin.c
>         src/plugins/HostWindowPlugin/HostWindowPlugin.c
>         src/plugins/SoundGenerationPlugin/SoundGenerationPlugin.c
>         src/plugins/SoundPlugin/SoundPlugin.c
>         src/plugins/SqueakFFIPrims/SqueakFFIPrims.c
>         src/vm/cointerp.c
>         src/vm/cointerp.h
>         src/vm/gcc3x-cointerp.c
> 
> commit 1af7478875b2d534c3b6cdc89d8244ff3ea4ec65
> Author: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com>
> Date:   Sun Apr 3 09:09:20 2011 -0300
> 
>     added LocalePlugin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> However, only the 4 first characters are usually enough to specify a
> version. So for example in Git you can do:
> 
> git checkout 1af7478875b2d534c3b6cdc89d8244ff3ea4ec65
> 
> or
> 
> git checkout 1af7
> 
> So...we can have the same as the SVN if we want.
> 

Great - thank you! I was hoping somebody would know how to do this.

Dave