git version tags

[Nick Schermer]

2009/7/29 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> -> X.Y.Zgit-SSSSSSSS
>
> * Pros: it's a reasonable length, and lets us uniquely identify the commit
> that the build is based on.
> * Cons: we lose all ability to do version order checking.  All we can say is
> "this build is after X.Y.Z but before X.Y.(Z+1)".

I'd prefer this for the package name/version, that's good enough to
see what revision someone is using. For the dependency versions, we
could/should use micro/nano version bumps during development.

Nick