[Question] Is there a way to track which commits are included in a pre-release version?

[Andrej730]

Request Overview

It would be useful to know whether a specific commit has been included in a given pre-release build, so that it's possible to test a bug fix early once it has been committed to the repo.

E.g. current pre-release version is 1.23.25, but the latest tag in the repo is 1.22.28 (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/tags) - to which commit is it actually pointing to?

[yanghhhhhhh]

Hi @Andrej730, thanks for reporting issue here!
No, pre-release versions are not associated with Git tags. GitHub tags are only used for the Stable version.
Pre-releases are built directly from a specific commit on the repo and published by CI.
To know which commits are included, you need to check the commit SHA embedded in the VSIX (or in the extension details), and then compare it with the commit you care about. Thanks.

[Andrej730]

To know which commits are included, you need to check the commit SHA embedded in the VSIX (or in the extension details), and then compare it with the commit you care about. Thanks.

How can I find where it's embedded? E.g. I've downloaded ms-vscode.cmake-tools-1.22.28.vsix - already released extrension which was built from b904597 (based on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/releases/tag/v1.22.28 tag), but I couldn't find this hash anywhere in the zip.

Extension details don't have commit info either:

Also had an idea that maybe https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/actions/workflows/build-vsix.yml can help for this, but checking those action logs (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/actions/runs/22921011028/job/66519071399) they don't mention the current pre-release version 1.23, so I'm not sure if this is connected to the pre-releases builds directly.

[yanghhhhhhh]

@Andrej730 Thanks for your comment. A simple way is to check the change log https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md. Could you please check it? I'm not sure if this is your problem, please let us know if we've missed anything. Thank you.

[Andrej730]

Thanks for your comment. A simple way is to check the change log main/CHANGELOG.md. Could you please check it? I'm not sure if this is your problem, please let us know if we've missed anything. Thank you.

But how do I identify if specific commit was included in the current pre-release?

[yanghhhhhhh]

@gcampbell-msft @hanniavalera Could you help to take a look at this issue? Thanks.