Hi, On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Adam Spiers wrote:
The timestamp is useless as mentioned previously
Mentioned by who? It's certainly not useless - it's *required* for correct chronological ordering, as I already mentioned.
You're too fixated on git. Correct chronological ordering is not depending on timestamps. It depends on some number that monotonically increases with commit time. svn revision numbers do for instance. And as timestamps indeed have the mentioned problem it's actually a bad way to ensure chronological ordering. Better than nothing I suppose, but not very good.
An offset (with or without hash, depending on what's needed) is both short and precise.
Sorry, I don't understand this. Can you explain in more detail?
Offset == number of commits on top of some base (where base in git describe parlance is e.g. a tag). Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org