[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] proper version info for git.mplayerhq.hu

[Rudolf Polzer]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:41:09AM +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 10:41:55AM +0100, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> > As I got no further reply to this, and would really like to see this applied, I
> > attached the current version of this again and ask: is anything important
> > missing? Can this get applied?
> > 
> > It:
> > - clearly changes nothing for svn users
> > - if a user of our official git repo has an unmodified repo, he will see the
> >   same version number as if he has used svn
> 
> And "LOCAL".

If the changes are also not committed, yes.

> > - if he has changes to svn, he gets SVN-r12345+3eb79c1 to also contain his git
> >   hash
> > - if the SVN revision cannot be identified (e.g. because he pulled from another
> >   repo, e.g. uau's in case uau merges this change), you just git git-3eb79c1
> >   (possibly appended with +1f9a317 for local changes)
> > 
> > I get, for example:
> > MPlayer SVN-r32671+12b7526-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> 
> Btw, since your working on "helpers", having a .gitignore and an update
> script in TOOLS with sth like "(cd ffmpeg; git pull); (cd
> ffmpeg/libswscale; git pull); (cd libdvdnav/; svn up); (cd libdvdread4/;
> svn up)" could be nice... And maybe an init script too :-)
> 
> But well, that's not what your patch is about.
> 
> Regarding the patch, what happen if git is not installed on the user
> system?

This code never gets called unless this is a git checkout. So this shouldn't be
a problem. It only runs if finding the svn revision failed using svn means.

Best regards,

Rudolf Polzer