rev 1234 the same meaning as rev 67230ac, you have to look it up
regardless on git.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:48 AM, jp charras <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 27/08/2016 à 17:14, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>> Now that we've migrated from bzr, there isn't much reason to keep
>> attaching a (now fake) bzr revision number to the version string.
>> Additionally, we can choose a sensible default branch name if one isn't
>> specified on the cmake line, rather than "product". This patch reformats
>> the version strings to:
>>
>> (2016-08-26 revision 67230ac)-master
>>  |                   |        |
>>  |                   |        custom branch name if set. Otherwise,
>>  |                   |        branch name, "HEAD" if not on a branch,
>>  |                   |          or "unknown" if no .git present
>>  |                   |
>>  |                   abbreviated commit hash, or no-git if no .git
>>  |                     present
>>  |
>>  date of commit, or date of build if no .git present
>
> I find the bzr revision number useful to easily know the order of revisions.
> the name bzr is now a bit strange, so the version string could be:
>
> (2016-08-26 rev 1234 git 67230ac)-master
>
> (users, many times, just give a rev number, no the full version string, so in 
> a bug or mail, rev
> 1234 has meaning, but revision 67230ac has no meaning, at least for me).
>
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> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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