Re: create Debian Source from GIT repository without tag
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:04:43PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 05:00:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > If the repository contains any tags, I'd strongly recommend the output of
> > "git describe --tags". This will, beside DTRT when you're exactly on a
> > tag (ie, on a release), produce version numbers of the form:
> > <recent tag>-<# of commits>-g<short hash>, which is both monotonic if you
> > fast-forward and can be given to git to unambigously refer to the commit
> > you're uploading even to users of other branches.
> >
> > For example, one of my projects is currently at 0.17-128-g8606a54.
> This also will cause the package version to have nothing in common with
> the actual software version. I doubt we want this.
Eh? How can you have _more_ in common with the actual version than "from
release X, add Y commits, of all branch tips Y commits later pick the one
whose hash starts with Z"?
It's both human and machine readable.
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