Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

> Yes. You can create the 'initial' tag with
> 
>   git rev-list HEAD | tail -n1 | xargs git tag initial
> 
> and from then on
> 
>   git describe --tags --match initial | cut -d'-' -f2
> 
> will give you the increasing "revision" number you're looking for. Just be 
> aware that if you have two parallel branches with the same number of 
> commits, they will give you the same number. I.e. this only works for a 
> single, stable (i.e. no history rewrites), branch of development.