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From: alexandrul <alexandrul.ct@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:16:23 +0300
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Johan Herland wrote:
> Yes. You can create the 'initial' tag with
> 
>   git rev-list HEAD | tail -n1 | xargs git tag initial
> 
> and from then on
> 
>   git describe --tags --match initial | cut -d'-' -f2
> 
> will give you the increasing "revision" number you're looking for. Just be 
> aware that if you have two parallel branches with the same number of 
> commits, they will give you the same number. I.e. this only works for a 
> single, stable (i.e. no history rewrites), branch of development.


So if you concatenate the branch name with the "revision" number you would have
pretty unique tags repo-wide, if you won't rename your branches.