Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c

Hello Eygene,

By the way, I am missing one thing: the Id keyword in the file. The
problem is that when some user is telling me: there is a bug in the
function a() that is inside the file b.c, then I can ask him to
give me the $Id$ tag of the file and I will have the full information
about the file version. Can I have it with git if user has just the
sources without any signs of the file versions? I've glanced over
the git manual, but was unable to find anything usable.

Git and the linux kernel (can) have the commit hash in their version.

For git you can see it with

	$ git version
	git version 1.5.0.2.260.g2eb065

for the linux kernel you have to enable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO, then
you get:

	$ uname -r
	2.6.20-g509cb37e

Knowing the commit you can determine the corresponding "version" of b.c.

There are some other possiblities to communicate that hash.  E.g.
a tar archive created with
	
	$ git-archive --format=tar ...

allows you do to

	$ git-get-tar-commit-id < $tarfile
	2eb06531e3d53c2604f20c32e5cb791d5044ff02

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-König

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