On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:35:41PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I'd like to propose another alternative, which I used for 'grub' on the > 'wip-loongson2f' branch. There, the version string is simply the output > of "git describe". This gives us lexicographic ordering, and the commit > id can be extracted with (last (string-split version #\g)).
This looks like the perfect solution to me. Andreas
