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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
To: "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:23:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4549D519.4080104@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160611020312v42047716t6a13e6fa16eeae8@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02  1:23 Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02  1:47 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02  9:55   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02 10:37     ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 10:53       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02 10:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-02 11:12         ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 11:21           ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 12:39             ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 13:52               ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 11:23           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2006-11-02 12:44             ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 14:07             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-02 14:48           ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-11-02 15:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-02 19:12               ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-11-02 11:12         ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 11:03       ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-02 13:45         ` Carl Worth

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