Alex - would it be difficult to have this come out from a command
line? Would we need to extract the jar/war each time? I want this
included in our automated test reports.

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 05:28:51PM +0000, Alex Huang wrote:
> I think it should be in both.  In fact, I am hoping to push them further down.
> 
> Before our switch to git, the build number, which with svn included
> the revision as the last octet, was pushed to every script,
> javascript, jar, and war.  I like to see that back again.  It's very
> useful when trying to figure out exactly what was deployed.  I will
> work toward that if there's no objections.  
> 
> I pushed in the changes to war file for now so QAs at least have
> some way to find the revision number to communicate in Jira.
> 
> --Alex
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 6:53 AM
> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Adding git commit ids to our packaging...
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:48:12AM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Will work on making it nicer but do we want to put this information into
> > release?  Is there any harm to have this in the release build?  I can't 
> > think of
> > any off-hand.  If we don't want them, we can change build_asf.sh to  set
> > those two variables to something nicer.  If we want them, I might be able to
> > get it to read this information from a file instead.
> > > >
> > > > --Alex
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for putting the work in to get this done.
> > > I agree - no harm in having this in the release build, and could be
> > > very useful to boot.
> > > I personally would like to see this information, present - setting it
> > > at tarball creation makes sense to me.
> > >
> > > --David
> > >
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > The only reason it was removed previously was that it was breaking the build
> > process when someone tried to build from the release tarball.  If we want to
> > drop the details into the release archive before tar'ing, great!
> > 
> > The only other minor concern would be the release verification process will
> > have to be updated to account for the fact that we'll have one file (or some
> > lines) that are different between the actual tagged commit in the repo and
> > what's in the tarball.  As far as I know, that's just a process change for 
> > us.
> > Easy...
> > 
> > -chip

-- 
Prasanna.,

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