From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:23:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4549D519.4080104@xs4all.nl> References: <45494E20.1000503@shadowen.org> <4549C083.9060805@xs4all.nl> <4549CA6B.4090909@shadowen.org> <4549CE2A.3010808@xs4all.nl> <8aa486160611020312v42047716t6a13e6fa16eeae8@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git In-Reply-To: <8aa486160611020312v42047716t6a13e6fa16eeae8@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfaer-0006II-Lv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:22:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751482AbWKBLWu convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:22:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752570AbWKBLWu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:22:50 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.35]:50700 "EHLO smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751482AbWKBLWt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:22:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.123.187] (muurbloem.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA2BMlpM037197; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:22:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hanwen@xs4all.nl) To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Santi B=E9jar 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: >=20 > v1.4.3.3-git12g1e1f76e >=20 > to provide a weak ordering for fast-forwarding commits. What do you t= hing? 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 readabi= lity. --=20