Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian@joonet.de>]

The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote on 2011-04-12 17:40:

> While admittedly more recognizable for users of Western calendars,
> an 8-digit ISO 8601esque datestamp is fairly low-density. With only
> a couple more digits, you can have epoch seconds as your version
> timestamp (as upstream, I actually just do 0.0.<epoch of commit> for
> snapshots of some of my not-yet-ready-for-release projects). Just
> remember that they'd need to do more than release "something larger
> than 0.0.1" to edge out 0.0.<bignumber>... something on the order of
> 0.1.x would be needed.

Does you mean, that you don't use a special git-number, but instead
the timestamp of the git commit? E.g.

0.0.20110412+1204-1  for timestamp with date 2011-04-12 and time 12:04

or 

0.0.201104121204-1   for timestamp with date 2011-04-12 and time 12:04


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Have a nice day.

Joachim (Germany)