On 15/02/13 12:04, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 15/02/13 11:49, Doug Newgard wrote:
>>> m4/efl.m4 is still trying to call svnversion or git-svn-id to get the 
>>> dev_version.
>>>
>>> I don't have an easy fix, git doesn't have anything quite like the svn 
>>> revisions.
>>> git describe can get you the count of the number of commits since the last
>>> annotated tag, but there are no tags in the EFL git repo yet.
>>>
>>> Just wanted to make people aware. It only shows up as an error if you don't
>>> have svn installed, so I figured it might not get noticed right away.
>>
>> Haha, so funny. I just thought about it as well (been trying to figure
>> this out for the last couple of minutes).
>>
>> The thing is, that there's git describe. Git describe can give the
>> version information easily. For example, from the 1.7 branch:
>> v1.7.5-21-ga0f2638
>>
>> i.e, head is 21 commits after the tag, it's commit hash is ga0... and etc.
>>
>> The problem with that is that we have "revision" as int in Eina_Version,
>> and that obviously doesn't work well with strings.
>>
>> Daniel and I have been trying to think about it. I say we can try to use
>> git describe when it works (just get the "count after tag"), and when it
>> doesn't (i.e if there are no tags) count the commits in the history in
>> order to get a count. This is not perfect, but can work.
>>
>
> Hmm, there is a git rev-list which can give the number of commits of a
> branch, but of course it is not tied to the svn revision, for instance
>
> git rev-list --count HEAD
>

Yeah, that's one of the ideas.

--
Tom.


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