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

["Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com>]

On 11/2/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> 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?

Yes.

$ git-rev-list 1e1f76e ^v1.4.3.3 | wc -l

>
> I'd prefer
>
>    v1.4.3.3+git-12-1e1f76e
>
> or similar. Pasting together words without separator is bad for readability.
>
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>   Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen