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Re: [PATCH] guilt: add git commit level versioning

From
PGPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2008, 16:13 UTC
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<48EE2D9A.20205@windriver.com>
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<20081009155445.GF27647@josefsipek.net>
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:08:42PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>   
>> Shamelessly steal the dynamic versioning goodies from git
>> itself.  Now when you do "guilt --version" you can expect to
>> see things like:
>>
>> 	Guilt version 0.31.2.14.gece1.dirty
>>
>> assuming you've 14 commits since 0.31.2 and also some changes
>> that you've not committed yet.
>>     
>
> Good idea. I've been pondering how to do this a while back, but never got
> around to actually do it.
>
> One comment: Why not keep the default version in guilt? You're running sed
> on it anyway.  This makes releasing identical to what it was before the
> patch:
> 	<edit guilt to reflect new version, commit>
> 	git tag -u abcdef v0.xy
> 	git archive --tar v0.xy | gzip -9 > guilt-0.xy.tar.gz
>
> Additionally, things won't "break" for folks running right out of the git
> repo - I just add the git repo dir to my $PATH.
>   

Sounds reasonable to me. I'm about to disappear for a 4 day weekend (Cdn Thanksgiving) so I won't be able to do that until next Tuesday at the earliest though.

P.
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.
>
>   
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