[Cruisecontrolrb-users] Git support - kinda works, have design questions

[Chad Woolley]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Jason Sallis <jsallis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex, have you considered using a shortened version of the revision hash for
> display? With git, you can do 'git rev-parse --short HEAD' to get a more
> readable but unique enough revision hash to id the build with. I'm not sure
> if mercurial or other distributed vc systems have such an option, but it
> would work for git at least. Just a thought.
>
>  - Jason

This seems like a great solution, Jason.  I'd definitely avoid a
manually generated build ID - having the build ID tied directly to SCM
is one of the nice things about cc.rb.