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

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On 11/2/06, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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