git version tags

[Christian Dywan]

Am Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:38:35 +0200
schrieb Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com>:

> 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.

I find the (shortened) commit hash very valuable, it does let you
identify test builds unambiguously. For what I want, leave the "git"
out since it's redundant given that that is the only revision control
system in use, if you want to make the string short.

Cheers,
    Christian