* Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@ubuntu.com>, 2011-04-11, 18:52:
If there is really no release (and never going to be),
(You can never know that...)
just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that. Your version ID would look something like: 1.0[~|+]gitYYYYMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1
Version numbers don't need to be "nice" or "round"; they should make sense, however. 1.0+something for a piece of software that is not planned to be released certainly doesn't.
-- Jakub Wilk