[petsc-dev] moab nightlybuild failure

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> > With such extra metadata - one could potentially do such tarcking of
> > updates with tarballs aswell.
> 
> For that, you'd have to have positive identification for a tarball
> version (perhaps its SHA1) and keep the association with the working
> tree.

This can be encoded into the url. [since we host the tarballs anyway]

Satish

> 
> > But for what Barry wants - we need subrepo type support where we keep track of
> > snapshot relations at each step of progress of petsc-dev  & moab-dev.
> >
> > As it stands now - if you checkout petsc-dev from a few weeks back [or
> > working on a branch for that long] - you get latest moab that could
> > potentially have conflicts.
> 
> That is the reason for 'gitcommit' referring to a specific commit.
>