Bug 557366 – Include the commitid in the gentoo rsync tree

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Jason Zaman 2015-08-12 13:40:39 UTC]

Is it possible to add a small file in /metadata/ during the metadata generation step so we have a way to know exactly which commitid the rsync tree is based off.

the following should work:
git rev-parse HEAD > metadata/git-commit-id

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2015-08-13 09:20:22 UTC]

We should also include date and committer of the last change, just to be sure that we are compliant with the GPL. Maybe this should go into a separate file like metadata/last-change, in order to keep the git-commit-id file machine readable.

The output of:

   git log -1 --date=iso --format=fuller

could be used for the last-change file.

See previous discussion: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-licenses/message/f42a0ba91e7ca972a1cccbeaa46fd2bd

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2015-08-13 09:53:06 UTC]

How about 'git cat-file -p HEAD' -- this should be the machine-readable git format.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2015-08-13 11:16:10 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #2)
> How about 'git cat-file -p HEAD' -- this should be the machine-readable git
> format.

That doesn't include the commit id, and the date format ("1439455101 +0200") isn't human-readable.

[Comment 4 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2021-08-26 17:50:40 UTC]

We don't plan on doing this afaik.

-A