Re: [boost] [testing] How do you interpret the SHA1 revision(outdated results)?

Subject: Re: [boost] [testing] How do you interpret the SHA1 revision(outdated results)?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-23 06:18:26

> This SHA1 is superproject one:
>
> commit 3d21a16db5ada89d4c5875074a87ba81239048a0
> Author: Automated Commit <automated_at_[hidden]>
> Date:   Mon Jan 20 04:30:03 2014 -0500
>
>     Update phoenix.
>
> And it's on master branch. Here's the corresponding regex revision:
>
> $ git ls-tree 3d21a16db5ada89d4c5875074a87ba81239048a0:libs | grep regex
> 160000 commit a3075dd98ffa4ffea8cf6331e1ef19dc1b42459e regex
>
> That revision is the tip of the master branch, and is indeed, from Dec 7.

Great.  Two questions:

1) How come the Mac tests are being run on 2 month old sources?
2) How did you figure that out?

If I run the git ls-tree command above on my working system I get a "not a 
valid object name" error, plus not everyone has a Unix command line to 
hand...

Thanks, John.