Re: [PATCH 3/4] Teach git-describe to display distances from tags.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 27, 2007, 12:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701271348330.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pqcluum.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > The + format is much easier to read and understand than the - format 
> > original proposed by Junio.
> 
> I tend to disagree (I do not claim + is _less_ easier to read, though).
> 
> They are of comparable readability, and I think plus breaks 
> GIT-VERSION-GEN (the primary reason it replaces '-' to '.' is to work 
> around RPM limitation IIRC, and I do not know what '+' does to RPM 
> offhand).

Note that scripts using git-describe to name archives break also on challenged file / operating systems. IIRC on DOS/FAT32 '+' has problems with it.

> But I do not have a strong feeling either way.

Neither have I.

Ciao, Dscho