From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:54:36 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b Message-ID: <20050923205436.GF10255@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7v8xxnbjhl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:46:14PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > If you pulled from "master" branch, then --version would still > say 0.99.7; I agree it is confusing. On the other hand, I do > not think we would want to increment the version string with > every little changes, so... In ELinks, we pseudo-bump the version number from v1.2.3 to v1.2.3.CVS (now v1.2.3.GIT) right after the release. In Cogito, we append the commit ID current at the time of build to cg-version output (if it was built from GIT-tracked working directory). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.