On 27 April 2014 16:54, Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/27/2014 12:00 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> >> For a long time I've felt that the NixOS version string format >> >> VERSION "pre" NUM_COMMITS_SINCE_THE_VERY_BEGINNING > > Perhaps I don't understand what you mean. nixos-version for me prints > "14.04pre-" + git-hash
Yes, sorry, I didn't mention the hash for some reason. I guess I thought it was a good idea to leave it out of the discussion because it's not something I want to change. Like Marc Weber says above, when using git/distributed system, the hash is the only true identifier. I agree with that. To clear things up: * nixos-version currently adds the git-hash at the very end and I don't want to change that * git describe also adds a hash at the end to provide unique identifier (iff the commit isn't exactly on a tag) Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
