From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:15:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910182112200.21739@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200910181923.19511.johan@herland.net>

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Johan Herland wrote:

> On Sunday 18 October 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On So, 18 Okt 2009, Johan Herland wrote:
> > >     $ git describe
> > >     v1.0.4-14-g2414721
> > >
> > > where the "v1.0.4" part is the last tag that the current state is based
> > > on, the "14" part is the number of commit between that tag and the
> > > current
> > 
> > So if we have only one tag (initial) then it would count the number
> > of commits?
> 
> 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

Even simpler, without any tag:

	git rev-list HEAD | wc -l

That should roughly give the equivalent of the SVN revision number.  
Valid only in one specific repository of course.


Nicolas