Re: git revision number for package update

On 4/22/20 2:01 PM, Ebrahim Mayat via Fink-devel wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/22/20 12:31 PM, Ebrahim Mayat via Fink-devel wrote:
>>> Dear Finkers,
>>> I am trying to update the fluidsynth1 package which is now available 
>>> from GitHub. I came across a couple of “minor” problems which I need 
>>> to iron out.
>>> 1. How can I get the revision number of the source from a git repository?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean here. A git repo is a sequence of commits with 
>> some commits 'blessed' with tags, which are what are usually used to 
>> mark released versions. Revisions are not something that usually come 
>> up for git.
>> In Fink, a revision is the tracker for changes to an individual 
>> package at a certain source version. So if you have Version: 2.1.1 and 
>> then realize something needs to change in the package (a bug, new 
>> feature), but it's still using the same version from upstream, the 
>> Revision field is increased to note that the older description is now 
>> outdated.
>>
> 
> Dear Hanspeter,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. So, if I understand correctly, my record of the 
> source being revision 1 of version 2.1.1 is correct?
> 

Yes. The upgrade of fluidsynth v1.1.6 to 2.1.1 will revert the Revision 
field back to 1.

Hanspeter


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