On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:48:16 -0500, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:
> When you go to http://perl5.test-smoke.org/search, one of the columns > presented is "Git-id". Its contents look like this: > > v5.25.8-269-g01f9673 > v5.25.8-196-g3626fc2 > v5.25.8-208-g05053e2 > v5.25.8-260-g57b3a6b6ec $ git help describe NAME git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag reachable from it SYNOPSIS git describe [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] [<commit-ish>...] git describe [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>] DESCRIPTION The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1). > What these strings mean is not entirely self-evident. I can infer that > 'v5.25.8' means "after we've released perl-5.25.8." And I understand > that in the final part of the string, everything after the initial 'g' > is a git SHA (commit ID). > > But I've never understood what the middle integer is supposed to mean. > Those integers do not appear to be assigned in strictly increasing > numerical order. It would be nice if there was some explanation on the > page as to what that part and the whole Git-id are supposed to mean. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.25 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
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