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Ask HN: What is `PiperOrigin-RevId` in Google commits?
If you have a look at most Google repositories, a lot of commits in them contain this `PiperOrigin-RevId` id. I suppose that its something similar to `Change-Id` in Gerrit, but I'm not sure.
Does anyone know what's that?
- detaro 9y ago"Piper" is the custom version control tooling Google uses for their central repository, so this might be a reference added when commits are exported to git repositories. (reference for Piper being the name of the system: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor... )