On Sunday 18 October 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > On So, 18 Okt 2009, Johan Herland wrote: > > $ git describe > > v1.0.4-14-g2414721 > > > > where the "v1.0.4" part is the last tag that the current state is based > > on, the "14" part is the number of commit between that tag and the > > current > > So if we have only one tag (initial) then it would count the number > of commits? 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. Hope this helps, ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html