GitHead questions from the uninitiated

Peter S Kirk peter.kirk at isauk.biz
Tue Dec 2 14:40:34 PST 2014


On 2 Dec 2014 at 22:32, Alan Milewczyk Alan Milewczyk 
<alan at soulman1949.com> wrote:

> In the last week or so, I've been patching get_iplayer using GitHeadWin 
> to make sure I'm using the latest version.
> 
> I presume GitHead is a way of advising interim patches prior to issuing 
> an official update? But I'm puzzled, how do we know when this has been 
> updated? It not like some file list where we can see the date stamp of 
> the files.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alan

Alan,

Good question and one I have meant to ask myself, but kept forgetting to.

Dinky,

Please would you add/include a date and time to the githead updates. A 
version number would also be a useful addition: 2.90.0x

Cheers,

Peter



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