From: Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:06:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebase and incrementing version numbers
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> Suggestion #1:  Just put $Rev$ into the file and be done with it until
> the team moves over to Git (at which point you can figure something
> else out).
>
> Suggestion #2:  In your release process, put something like `sed -e
> "s/@@id@@/$(date +%s)/" source-dir/config > release-dir/config`
>
> -PJ

Ideally, this value only increments with a change in a certain directory.

I think using either $Rev$ or a data+time value conditioned on a file
changing in a directory might work.  Thanks!

Mike