Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 4 May 2022 11:14:28 -0700

On 6/1/20 18:21, Michael Davidsaver wrote:

On 6/1/20 5:48 PM, Engbretson, Mark S. wrote:

Can't you keep both revision and date? Knowing that something was compiled 2 years ago means much more to me than a revision number which is meaningless to me unless i actually know what the current release is. Unless this test was performed at run time and told me how far out of sync this was with the master branch.

A revision is useful to me when it shows up
here on tech-talk along with a request for help.

Also, recent GCC complains about use of __DATE__ wrt.
https://reproducible-builds.org/ (which I agree with)

Digging up an old thread...

I've added a codeathon project idea of capturing a VCS commit date
in addition to the revision/hash.  The commit date is reproducible,
while adding some context to the numeric/symbolic rev.

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/wiki/Codeathon-project-ideas#genversionheaderpl-emit-commit-date

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System