Re: [Libreoffice] [Libreoffice-qa] Naming builds. Please???

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:40:01PM +0000, Pedro Lino wrote:

> > Git commit IDs as identifiers have the huge problem that they are not
> > comparable (one cannot say which one is "greater") without referring
> > to the repository. How about we also put the *commit* (not author)
> > timestamp (in UTC) of the top node (commit), and maybe the branch?

> > Something like:

> > Build assembled from:
> >  repo  commit   date               branch
> >  core: 4f11d0a 2011-11-16 21:57:28 master
> >  help: adcf6d5 2011-11-05 14:01:21 master
> >  ...

> > Or instead of pretty-printing the date, just put it as seconds
> > since the epoch:

> >  core: 4f11d0a 1321480648 master
> >  help: adcf6d5 1320501681 master

> That would solve the problem when looking into the log file but not
> when looking at the About box.

No, my idea was to put the above text in the about box, to replace our
current 4f11d0a-adcf6d5-... string.

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Lionel