On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Johan Herland wrote: > 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 Even simpler, without any tag: git rev-list HEAD | wc -l That should roughly give the equivalent of the SVN revision number. Valid only in one specific repository of course. Nicolas -- 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