Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

2009/10/18 alexandrul <alexandrul.ct@gmail.com>:
> Norbert Preining wrote:
>> My idea is that git - like subversion - could (if asked to) count each
>> commit (global to the repository, irrelevant of the branch) and give it
>> a version number. Since we all will use a bare repository on a server
>> and pull/push from/to there, I think that something similar could be possible.
>
> I was thinking to set a post-commit hook that reads the current version
> from a file, increment and save it, and also set a tag with that value.
>
> Being a DVCS, this kind of versioning can only be trusted on a single repo,
> but if you set it on the "main" repo, it should work.
>
> The only drawback could be the ever growing number of tags,
> I don't know how it will work with thousands of tags or more.

I think the other drawback is that the number would essentially be
meaningless and more or less would just be a substitute sha1.

Consider when a remote adds commits and then merges and pushes. What
number should those commits have?

Yves



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