On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:51 +0100, JasonW wrote: > On 10 October 2011 01:25, Nigel Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/09/11 17:13, bat guano wrote: > > >> I think that would be a good feature. > >> Some programs (such as FFmpeg-git) show the 'commit'. > > > > Releases should be made regardless of the windows installer, then should > > windows fall behind and window users have to resort to getting the > > get_iplayer script. The version would have been updated for release to > > other platforms allowing identification by version number. > > But this isn't about releases (at least in my mind) - hence the > suggestion to add the commit date to the version number in git - so a > release would have no commit date, interim patched versions would. > > Example the next release would be 2.81, the patch beyond that would be > 2.81.111225 (if it's committed on Christmas Day)
There's already a standard form for such things: [dwmw2@shinybook get_iplayer]$ git describe --tags v2.80-6-g2e3e239 For the case where you've actually got the git repository checked out, it's probably not hard to print the version in that form. -- dwmw2
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