[petsc-dev] petsc patch number

[Jed Brown]

Individual commits are not strictly ordered.  'maint' does not get API
changes.  What are you trying to test for?  Presence of a bug fix?

"Kong, Fande" <fande.kong at inl.gov> writes:

> Thanks,
>
> In the moose side, we want to make some tests against the current maint,
> but still have some tests against the old one. The two versions of petsc
> may have the same petsc version number, e.g. 3.7.5. I want a patch number
> from which I could tell which one is newer. How it is different from the
> old one.
>
> Any alternative way to do that? When compiling  PETSc, do we have a macro
> variable to define the commit number?
>
> Fande,
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Kong, Fande wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Developers,
>> >
>> > Do we increase the patch number when pushing a new patch into maint?
>>
>> nope
>>
>> > If not, how to know if the current maint is different from the one I
>> > just got yesterday. I know a commit number is always available.
>>
>> git fetch && git log maint..origin/maint
>>
>> [and you can look at that and decide to do a 'git pull' on maint]
>>
>> Satish
>>
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