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

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

Neat!  I'd like this in gnulib, so I can use it in my projects to make
automatic releases during development cycles.  I've been thinking of how
to achieve that for some time, but this seems to be a good solution.

I'd prefer to avoid any non-numeric symbols though, doesn't autoconf
gnits mode complain?

/Simon