Re: Remote git-describe ?

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> However, I suspect that we could do better with Shawn's new
> fangled describe implementation that actually counts the
> distance between what is described and the tag.  We could add
> "number of commits since the tag" somewhere, to describe:
> 
> 	v2.6.20-rc5-256-g419dd83
>         v2.6.20-rc5-217-gde14569
> 
> to say that the first one has 256 commits accumulated since the
> given tag "v2.6.20-rc5" and the second one has only 217
> commits, to get the sense of how busy the development activity
> is.
> 
> Is it useful?  That is something I am not sure.

I think this would be really nice to have even if not absolutely useful.


Nicolas
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