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Re: git-version-gen: allow 'snapshot' as .tarball-version contents
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Dmitry V. Levin |
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Re: git-version-gen: allow 'snapshot' as .tarball-version contents |
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Sun, 13 Oct 2019 22:52:51 +0300 |
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 06:30:47PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> git-version-gen currently rejects some forms of .tarball-version:
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> $ cat > .tarball-version
> 20191011
> $ build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version; echo
> 20191011
> $ cat > .tarball-version
> snapshot
> $ build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version; echo
> build-aux/git-version-gen: WARNING: .tarball-version is missing or damaged
> UNKNOWN
>
> I need a non-numeric version for continuous publishing of gettext snapshot
> tarballs, and I want the tarballs to be called gettext-snapshot.tar.gz,
I wonder how users of these tarballs would be able to identify
snapshots if there is no version information.
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