Re: Adding optionally commit number in PG_VERSION_STR

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It happens that I work occasionally on multiple builds based on
> different stable branches at the same time to check fixes that need to
> be backpatched, and I tend to easily lose track on which version the
> build I created is based on (Duh!). There is of course the version
> number up to the 3rd digit available (for example 9.2.4, 9.3beta2,
> etc.), but as a developer I think that it would be helpful to include
> the commit ID in PG_VERSION_STR to get a better reference on exactly
> what the development build is based on. This could be controlled by an
> additional flag in ./configure.in called something like
> --enable-version-commit, of course disabled by default. If enabled,
> PG_VERSION_STR would be generated with the new information. configure
> would also return an error when this flag is enabled if git is either
> not found, or if the repository where configure is not a native git
> repository.

FYI, we include the output from "git describe --always" in the pgAdmin
version meta info, which is displayed on the About box along with the
regular version info. That has proven to be extremely useful in the
past, particularly during QA where people may be testing snapshot
builds.

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