git version tags

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 14:38:35 CEST 2009


2009/7/29 Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org>:
> I don't think X.Y.Zgit-SSSSSSSS is any more useful then X.Y.Zgit,
> usually we only refer to 'latest' when someone reports a bug.
>
> U: 'Feature X is broken'
> D: 'I can't reproduce, are you using the latest version?'
> U: 'No...'
> D: 'Please upgrade first'
>
> See? No need for revision-numbers.

Could still be useful, if feature x is broken after tarball SSSSSSSS,
whatsoever. Anyway, only adding git is fine by me too, saves us some
trouble in autogen.sh too ^_^, I always found using svn revision
numbers in dependencies crap, so either the short sha1 hash or
nothing.

Nick



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