Re: FYI: new inter-release version strings, e.g., 6.9-219-g58ddd,

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:50:31PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> For example, now when I run "make dist", rather than getting the always
> identically-named coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz, I get tarballs with more
> meaningful names:
> 
>     coreutils-6.9.220.gdd469.tar.gz
>     coreutils-6.9.223.g624d1.tar.gz
> 
> Similarly, --version output reflects the snapshot:
> 
>     $ src/cat --version| head -1
>     cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9.223.g624d1

Since "g" is common prefix produced by git describe, maybe it could be
omitted?  Also, maybe 4 hexdigits is enough to distinguish snapshots?
E.g. 6.9.223.624d instead of 6.9.223.g624d1.


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