Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Santi Béjar escreveu:
>> One problem I see with this scheme (either 'g', 'git' of '+') is that
>> it does not provide an increasing version number, even for
>> fast-forwarding commits. Then it is not useful as a package version
>> number (deb or rpm). I've already seen deb packages with
>> version+git20061010. One possibility could be to add the number of
>> commits between the tag and the commit as:
>> 
>> v1.4.3.3-git12g1e1f76e
>> 
>> to provide a weak ordering for fast-forwarding commits. What do you thing?
> 
> Is that number well defined if you merge branches in between?
> 
> I'd prefer
> 
>    v1.4.3.3+git-12-1e1f76e
> 
> or similar. Pasting together words without separator is bad for readability.

Or even IMVHO better:

    v1.4.3.3+12--1e1f76e

or something like that. v1.4.3.3+12 part meaning that v1.4.3.3 is 12 ancestor
in direct shortest direct line, or that v1.4.3.3+12 is 12 generations away
from v1.4.3.3.

Of course that is _costly_ to confitm that, and v1.4.3.3+12 might mean more
than one revision in presence of branching points, especially that there is
no equivalent of "first parent" to distinguish like in case of v1.4.3.3~12
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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