Re: [orca-list] Current Orca Version?

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
Several facts:
- Orca development continues in the master branch where new features are 
added all the time.
- When you clone the orca git repository and you won't specify a branch 
to checkout you will end with master branch in your local tree.
- Other branches are usually created to prepare a stable release. While 
the stable release is tested and bugfixed new stuff can be added to the 
master branch.
- In all branches including master developers are able to tag specific 
commits to easily refer to individual testing releases and / or milestones.
- git describe prints reference to the latest such tag in the current 
branch along with the latest commit. I think if you would like to 
maintain various orca-git packages where major version differ you can 
create multiple packages pulling different tags from the respective 
branches.
- Since there is no easy way to accuratelly retrieve the orca version 
from git you can just version your package incrementally always checking 
out from the master branch. This is what is verry common and people are 
used to it.
Here are two example functions you may wish to add into your PKGBUILD file.
It does not matter too much what you will end up with as long as you 
like it and it increments with each update.

pkgver() {
  cd ${pkgname}
  echo $(git rev-list --count HEAD)+g$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
}

pkgver() {
  cd "${pkgname}"
  printf "r%s.g%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse 
--short HEAD)"
}




On 24.10.2014 at 13:23 Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well, since I maintain the AUR PKGBUILD for orca-git, I need to figure
> out a different way to retrieve the current and correct version number
> when pulling from git.
>
> Also, I wasn't aware of different branches in git right now. I did not
> see these other branches when I listed them. Maybe I need to review
> git commands again <sigh>. Would this mean that my current git pull of
> Orca dies not include 3.14 changes?
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 07:09:23AM +0200, Peter V?gner wrote:
> > Hello,
> > What is so confusing to Steve about this is that arch linux AUR package of
> > orca uses git describe for retrieving its version string. Since git describe
> > puts latest tag in its description it is now version 3.13.91 or something
> > verry similar. We had a discussion on this about a week ago on one of these
> > lists either orca-list or sonar gnu linux support list.
> > The curent git master produces a version of orca which when instructed to do
> > so prints its version string as 3.15.something. There has been no tagget
> > 3.15.x release yet it's why AUR PKGBUILD script confuses you all like hell.
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > On 24.10.2014 at 03:53 Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:04:24PM EDT, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > > I just pulled the latest git version from Master and I still see
> > > > 3.13.99 in the version of Orca. When I list branches in git with "git
> > > > branch -l", it just shows Master. Should there be a later version of
> > > > Orca out there?
> > > Git master of orca for me has the version at 3.15.1pre. have you updated your local master branch copy?
> > >
> > > As for branches, there is origin/gnome-3-14 which you can get a local checkout of and build. There are also 
> > > tags for the releases.
> > >
> > > Luke
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > orca-list gnome org
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp