git version tags

[Diego Ongaro]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 18:11, Brian J. Tarricone<brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
> -> X.Y.Zgit-YYYYMMDDHHMM
>
> * Pros: decent length, minute-precision version checking.  In practice you
> can probably figure out the exact commit the build is based on.
> * Cons: it's still a bit long, and again you lose the exact commit.  In the
> case where someone checks in something, and *immediately* notices a mistake
> and makes another quick check-in (in under 60 seconds), this could thwart
> version checkers (but in practice this might not ever happen).

If you're rewriting history, applying a series of patches, etc, you
can actually commit pretty quickly in practice.