[aur-general] Revise VCS packages versioning

[William Giokas]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:26:27AM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > The sha1 is useful to people who need to quickly tell developers which
> > version they are running when they're from git. Removing it is a bad
> > idea.
> 
> You can get the commit from the version number even without the SHA1,
> something like:
> 
> git log --oneline $VERSION..$BRANCH | tail -n $REVISION | head -n 1
> 
> Where $BRANCH is the one used in PKGBUILD (usually it is HEAD).

This is not always true. Because of the branched, non-linear nature of
git, you could have two 'version' that are the same with different
SAH1s. The SHA is important in the version.

> 
> 
> Anyway VCS-package users suppose to follow HEAD version closely. In
> those rare cases when a user sees problem in no-release non-HEAD
> version and tries to contact upstream developers I bet the first
> question from the developers will be "Could you please update to HEAD
> and see if the problem still exists?".

Yes, they will, but for bisecting where the problem is, you could really
be happy for a SHA.

Thanks,
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