[tor-bugs] #27408 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Make it possible to find which tor-browser-build.git commit was used to build a nightly

Mon Sep 3 11:00:06 UTC 2018

#27408: Make it possible to find which tor-browser-build.git commit was used to
build a nightly
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 Reporter:  boklm                                |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, TorBrowserTeam201809,       |  Actual Points:
  boklm201809                                    |
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Comment (by boklm):

 Replying to [comment:1 arthuredelstein]:
 > Thanks for filing this ticket! It would also be nice if the nightly
 build package filename itself included the commit hash from `tor-browser-
 build.git`.

 I think adding the `tor-browser-build.git` commit in the filename in
 `projects/tor-browser/config` would force us to re-bundle tor browser when
 it's not needed:
 - sometimes we make commits that affect only one platform
 - sometimes we make commits that don't affect the builds at all (for
 instance files in the `tools/update-responses/` directory)

 But we could add a `tor-browser-build-commit.txt` file in the final
 directory. I started doing that in branch `bug_27408` (but did not test it
 yet):
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/boklm/tor-browser-
 build.git/commit/?h=bug_27408&id=940bbc592ec232e85f3783f2ef26be1b388faf0b

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