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Re: [O] git repo version clarificaiton


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [O] git repo version clarificaiton
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:25:01 -0400

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> > Is this master or maint?
> 
> master
> 
> >> Org-mode version 7.8.10 (release_7.8.10-701-g054f99 @
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/org-mode/lisp/)
> >> 
> >> instead of 7.8.11.
> >
> > Oh, and as Achim pointed out, you probably need to do
> >
> >   git fetch --tags origin
> 
> Oh, yes, that does the trick.  So the org version is constructed from
> the latest tag in git?
> 

When you ``make autoloads'', it runs ``git describe --abbrev=6 HEAD''
and uses the resulting string to create a new org-version.el file. That
file is then used from that point on. And yes, ``git describe''
calculates the name by counting how many commits past the latest
available tag there are (on the appropriate branch).

Nick




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