[haiku-development] Re: Haiku git migration status?

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Understandably, as Haiku is the *only* project tagging each and every
> changeset. This is clearly not the intended use for tags. But I don't suppose
> the few people in favor of the tags have changed their mind about it yet? :)

I really, really, really hope we can move away from this crutch once
most developers have gotten used to using Git. We will need to start
learning to use the SHA1 hashes when referring to particular Haiku
revisions. These tags will never be as convenient as the old SVN
revision numbers.

Using a Haiku revision string in AboutSystem which includes the date
and SHA1 hash of the commit the system was built from can serve the
same purpose as SVN revision numbers (and is better since the date can
be read directly.)

I also think we should start tagging known stable commits with a real
version number (0.1.1.8 or whatever) which also shows up in
AboutSystem and do the "alpha release preparation" type tasks more
often.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan

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