Re: git and the loss of revision numbers

From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy_at_mips.inka.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:20:42 +0100
Michael Grimm:

> If I do understand it correctly, the switch from svn to git comes with a loss of continuously increasing revision numbers.

Correct.

> Correct? If so I wonder how future security advisories and errata notices will be composed. Will there be a date of the commit besides its hash being reported? 

For over TWENTY YEARS, FreeBSD advisories have already contained
the date when the problem was corrected, e.g.:

  Topic:          Several vulnerabilities in procfs [REVISED]
  Category:       core
  Module:         procfs
  Announced:      2000-12-18
  Reissued:       2000-12-29
  Affects:        FreeBSD 4.x and 3.x prior to the correction date.
  Corrected:      2000-12-16 (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE)
                  2000-12-18 (FreeBSD 3.5.1-STABLE)

I think it is safe to assume that this practice will continue after
the switch to Git.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_at_mips.inka.de
Received on Thu Dec 24 2020 - 15:25:12 UTC

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