who is coming up with weird X265_VERSION?

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

$ cat source/common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/flags.make |grep X265_VERSION

Custom flags: common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/version.cpp.o_FLAGS = -DX265_VERSION=3.0_RC+44-a46ded2c1411 -DLINKED_10BIT=1 -DLINKED_12BIT=1 -DENABLE_ASSEMBLY=1

Who’s coming up with x265’s version names? Why would someone call the version 3.0_RC+44-a46ded2c1411 when the tip is at 3bdf06e3c628? This is very confusing and I believe there might be a bug in the cmake scripts. Is X265_VERSION created dynamically or is it committed to the code tree? Either way, something seems off.

[Lu Xinyue]

Which branch are you on? a46ded2c1411 seems to be the tip on default branch, 3bdf06e3c628 is the tip on release 3.1 branch.

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

I did a hg clone a long time ago and I’ve been only using hg pull since then, so I guess that I am on the default branch. But when I do a hg log I get the following:

changeset:   12524:3bdf06e3c628
branch:      Release_3.1
tag:         tip
user:        praveen_karadugattu <[e-mail]>
date:        Fri Jun 14 15:44:08 2019 +0530
summary:     Decoupled the non-"medium" presets from the effect of new default parameters committed under commit-id 4583000db964.

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So when I do hg log -l 1 --template '{date(date, "%Y%m%d")}-{node|short}\n' to get the latest commit point I get 20190614-3bdf06e3c628, but the X265 version is 3.0_RC+44-a46ded2c1411. So what is going on?

[Lu Xinyue]

I'm no expert in hg, but can you try hg id to check your current commit ID?

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

Hmm, ok, hg id returns a46ded2c1411. But this is very confusing, maybe I don’t understand hg then. hg log is supposed to show me the commits in the current branch, but apparently not. I’m a git user, so thank you for pointing out my stupid user error. I’m sorry for this ticket and the noise.

[Helmut K. C. Tessarek]

Closing.

[Lu Xinyue]

Hg works almost completely different than git apart from they are both DVCS and I understand your confusing. It confused me so much that I have moved to git mirror to do all my modding work.