[Vm-dev] Minutes of the Meeting to Discuss Moving Cog to Github

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Mon May 23 14:54:02 UTC 2016


On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>     here are the minutes of, and action items arising from, the meeting on Wednesday 18th of May to discuss moving the Cog svn repository to Github.  Please read if you're interested and discuss on vm-dev.  The major decision for the community to participate in is when to make the change, which we hope will happen in the next few weeks.  Thanks to all who attended the meeting and to all who have helped in making this a reality.  This is exciting!
>
> VM Move to Github Meeting Notes
>
[snip]
> To have incremental monotonic, human-readable version identifiers, we decided to use timestamps in the form YYYYMMDDHHmm in UTC. In order to ensure these timestamps are included in the sources, we will have a commit script in the repository that any contributor must use to update the dev and master branches (**). The checkout command for any version then becomes “git checkout branch@{timestamp}”. Both the built VMs via a -version flag, and sources via a header file, will be marked with these timestamps.

I thought this might be of interest since it says 'SVN- or CVS-style
keyword expansion is often requested by developers used to those
systems..."
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attributes#Keyword-Expansion

cheers -ben


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