module releases for X11R7.3

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Thu Aug 23 08:26:30 PDT 2007


Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/22/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/22/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>>> (I generated the list of modules with a loop doing "git log -1"
>>>  in each subdir, and seeing which didn't look like a version
>>>  bump was their last commit - ideally there would be a way to
>>>  have git show a log of all commits since the last tagged commit,
>>>  but I don't know how to do that - anyone have a suggestion?)
>> If you use git-describe, it will show the closest reachable tag.
>> Here's what happens in xserver right now on the master branch:
>>
>> $ git describe
>> xorg-server-1.3.99.0-63-g2c57f76
> 
> I didn't actually read the whole think you wanted to do. By using
> --abbrev=0, it will give just the tag name. Leading to:
> 
> $ git log `git describe --abbrev=0`..

Thanks!    We had discussed at XDevConf setting up a cron job on
freedesktop.org to send out mail every Monday morning reminding
people which modules had unreleased changes, but no one has written
the script yet.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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