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vcs export --exact reports tag names instead of commit hash

See original GitHub issue

Version: vcs 0.2.4

How to Reproduce: Run vcs export --exact on a set of repos.

Expected behavior: The version field of each repo will report the exact commit hash like this:

  src/ros2/rclpy:
    type: git
    url: https://github.com/ros2/rclpy.git
    version: 76d26a125da7f9df19ba35beb60cb16838019a10

Actual Behavior: Frequently the hash is replaced by a tag name.

  src/ros2/rcl_interfaces:
    type: git
    url: https://github.com/ros2/rcl_interfaces.git
    version: 0.8.0

I think when the --exact parameter is specified, it is preferable to provide the commit hash.

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crdelseycommented, Dec 3, 2019

Yeah. I can take a stab at it. Probably next week.

I haven’t looked at the codebase much yet, so I’m not sure if this makes sense.

But rather than changing all the backends, I could have the command line parser split the --exact-with-tags convenience option into two separate options on the command object: the existing .exact and a .with_tags. All the other backends would ignore the with_tags flag and maintain the same behavior.

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dirk-thomascommented, Jan 10, 2020

Resolved by #115.

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