Re: How to keep different version numbers in different branches?

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Apr 5, 2010, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqhbnprcj0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <hpcscv$umg$3@dough.gmane.org>

Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> My project uses git and so far has only one branch, 'master'.
>
> http://gitorious.org/grantlee/grantlee
>
> I want to make a 0.1 release, so that would mean creating a 0.1 branch and 
> updating files contained in the branch such as the README file and the CMake 
> files and the api documentation to report version 0.1.0, and creating the 
> 0.1.0 tag. The next tag on that branch would be 0.1.1 etc. Simultaneously, 
> the version number in those files is changes to 0.2.0 in the master branch.

You can have this number generated by your build script instead of having to commit it. See what git does, for example. The command "git describe" should help.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/