Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GIT tutorials (was: Re: Fix bug in GSM MAP, have problems with GIT)

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Hadriel Kaplan
> <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 4) How do you know if someone has a fix or not?  With subversion, they'd
>>> indicate they're running svn r51234, for example, and then you could tell
>>> them that they need to update to at least r52345.  With git, how does this
>>> work with hashes?
>>
>> That would be good to know - because so far it seems people've been using the first ~6 characters of the commit hashes, but I'm not sure if that's right or not.
>
> That is in general the git method. Better to use the first 12, but the
> general idea stays the same. But I would rather suggest using the
> gerrit change-ids, as those are universal. Git commit ids differ
> between different people (each clone may create their one), but
> change-ids stay identical.

For Wireshark build ( http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated )
The file contains the number of commit from "start of new branch"


>
> - Roland
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