Hi,
this is a patch for src/tools/version_stamp.pl that adds the current Git
commit information from "git describe --tags --long" to the current
version string if "git" is specified on the command line. I've been
testing for regressions and such lately (none found, yay), and the
current output from for example "psql --version" only shows "psql
(PostgreSQL) 9.6devel" without any reference to which commit it was
compiled from.
The following is an example from current master when I compile it
locally:
$ src/tools/version_stamp.pl git
Stamped these files with version number 9.6devel+REL9_5_ALPHA1-331-g119cf76:
configure.in
doc/bug.template
src/include/pg_config.h.win32
src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in
src/port/win32ver.rc
Don't forget to run autoconf 2.69 before committing.
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
[snip]
$ make
[snip]
$ src/bin/psql/psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.6devel+REL9_5_ALPHA1-331-g119cf76
The format I suggest for this is "[version]+[git_info]", as recommended
by the Semantic Version Specification (http://semver.org).
This format is not meant for public releases, of course, but I've found
it very useful when compiling local versions and I quickly want to see
which commit I have compiled from. The version string can also be used
together with git(1). For example, right now I have an ancient version
of REL9_5_STABLE from yesterday installed. To see if there are any new
commits I should check out, I can just use copy+paste to see what's
happened since then:
$ git log --format=oneline 9.5alpha2+REL9_5_ALPHA2-82-gce56a64..
440fc48cac7f450bb71d1f06f0d1326c63e3e42f dblink docs: fix typo to use "connname" (3 n's), not "conname"
The patch applies cleanly with -p1 to all REL9_*_STABLE branches and
master except REL9_0_STABLE and REL9_1_STABLE (due to perltidy in
2bc09ff three years ago) and has been tested with all minor version
variatons that version_stamp.pl accepts.
In case something fishy happens to the mail, the commit is also
available from <https://github.com/sunny256/postgres/> in these
branches:
git-versioning - squashed commit with suggested log message
git-versioning.wip - the branch I worked on
Online patch:
<https://github.com/sunny256/postgres/commit/0a6b8728f8105d05fd5b13c4b7ae80a44ff57576.patch>
Regards,
Øyvind
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