I think it would have been better if the commit after 5.0.0-rc1 was not tagged 5.0.0-rc2-dev. Then the git describe would make more sense. It would indicate that it was based on the 5.0.0-rc1 with additional commits and its hash.
The g stands for git according to the man page. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe (search for "-g"). 2018-03-12 15:48 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: > On 3/12/2018 10:40 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > > On 03/12/2018 10:23 AM, Jon Evans wrote: > >> I have seen multiple users who run nightlies think they have RC2 > because they read "5.0.0-rc2" and stop reading after that :-) > >> Maybe we should switch the tag back to "5.0-dev" between RC releases? > >> I think all of us developers are going to look up the git hash anyway > to know exactly when a given version was built, so the "rc2-dev" > information isn't super necessary for me at least. > >> > >> By the way, it's probably annoying to change this because I imagine > there are scripts that depend on it, but I wish the git hash didn't have a > "g" in front of it, since if I just double-click that portion of the > version string I have to manually remove the "g" before pasting it > elsewhere to look up the hash. > > > > I agree that the -rc2 could be confusing. As to the "g" prefix, that is > not present in the Fedora nightlies. They report more like: > > > > 5.0.0-rc2-dev-unknown-r12328-8fcbb64a > > My bad. I forgot that -unknown is append to the end of the version > string when building from a source archive or no git. Every think > appended after that is done by the build script. > > > > > where the r12328 is a sequential number representing the number of > commits to date and the 8fcbb64a is the short SHA of the head commit. > > > > Steve > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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