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by pavel_lishin 3413 days ago
Doesn't that assume that you only ever have one commit per release? Otherwise, you have to keep a track of "release commits".
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byroot 3413 days ago
It's better to have an activity log of your deployments, that way by querying what commit is currently in production you can compare it with the log and know what actually commit range was deployed.

There is many tools to do that, e.g.

  - Shopify's Shipit: https://github.com/shopify/shipit-engine (author here)
  - Zendesk's Samson: https://github.com/zendesk/samson
  -  Netflix's Spinnaker: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delivery-with.html
  - Yahoo's Screwdriver: https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/155765242061/open-sourcing-screwdriver-yahoos-continuous
  - Instagram's Sauron: https://engineering.instagram.com/continuous-deployment-at-instagram-1e18548f01d1#.tv6zycskx
And the list goes on.
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