Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

[Taylan Kammer]

I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they
immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly
live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have.

- Taylan

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:02 PM Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote:
> >> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported
> >> by 'guix --version' as something like:
> >>
> >>      522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5
> >>
> >> I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like:
> >>
> >>      2018-12-25-522d1b
> >>
> >> where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0.
> >>
> >> That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique.  (The chances of
> >> there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions
> >> in the hash should be negligient.)
> >>
> >> The package name is currently something like:
> >>
> >>      guix-522d1b87b
> >>
> >> That could become:
> >>
> >>      guix-2018-12-25-522d1b
> >>
> >> which is a bit longer but more descriptive.
> >>
> >> I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult
> >> it would be to implement these changes.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?  Worth it?
> >
> > I think it is worth it, in fact I was on my way to suggest the same.
>
> I like the "git describe" format:
>
> $ git describe
> v0.16.0-414-ge99d036828
>
> It does not mention a date, but it can be copy-pasted into "git" and
> shows how many commits there were between each generation.