From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:23:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix
Message-ID: <4549D519.4080104@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160611020312v42047716t6a13e6fa16eeae8@mail.gmail.com>

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?

I'd prefer

   v1.4.3.3+git-12-1e1f76e

or similar. Pasting together words without separator is bad for readability.

--