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Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging



On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:00:27 +1000
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:

> > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > > Why won't you just use `git --describe`?
> > > > It produces nice version numbers of the format
> > > > <last tag>-<number of commits after it>-<start of hash>
> > > > (or just <last tag> when you're packaging a release)
> 
> git --describe is, as far as I can tell, useless for the purpose stated at
> the beginning of the thread.

Did you miss the <number of commits after it> bit? I think that makes it
ideal provided each release is tagged with its version number.

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