GitHead questions from the uninitiated

[Alan Milewczyk]

Thanks Vangelis!

On 02/12/2014 23:59, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> On Tue Dec 2 22:40:34 GMT 2014, Peter S Kirk wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>> ...
>> 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
>
> Git HEAD is the most recent revision (commit) of the code in the Git 
> repository;
> what I do is browse the main git repo via http (I am on Windows) 
> through this URL:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git
>
> At the time of writing, the most recent commit is the one titled
> "Strip line breaks for --info output", which has a shortened object 
> name e418217
> and was commited on  Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:23:30Z.
> So, if you update to the Git HEAD version of the script NOW,
> the version you are using would be get_iplayer-git-e418217.
> If you write this down for reference, you know where you are
> in the evolution of the code...
> As for updates, you can subscribe to the corresponding feed:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/rss
>
> Dinkypumpkin maintains a mirror of the infradead git repo on GitHub:
>
> https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer
>
> By subscribing to
>
> https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/commits/master.atom
>
> you can also be informed about updates to the code...
> Of course my answer to Alan & Peter's query is not a
> legitimate one, since I am not a coder, just an empirical one...
> I struggle to understand the intricacies of Git -
>
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
>
> is a place I started from...
>
> EDIT: Just prior to hitting "Send", I saw that Shevek
> beat me to it! Well done, sir!
>
> Vangelis.
>
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