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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could be very usefull for version info in the future.
Den 07/05/2015 17.01 skrev "Ladislav Laska" <laska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure what "bzr-like revision" is, but I wanted to note that
> there is a command "git describe --tags", which outputs something very
> reasonable (if you tag your releases).
>
> If the current version has a tag, it displays the tag. Otherwise, it
> displays <tag>-<# of commits after tag>-g<hash of current commit>.
>
> This has two advantages:
> 1) You can identify the exact version.
> 2) You instantly know how old the version is, and wether it is release
> or not.
>
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > AWESOME.
> >
> > So now we just need to support git hashes in the version info.  Now, I
> > don't think there is any reason to hold this back.  I have made such a
> > patch that will compute a bzr like revision (should match every
> > revision with my sporadic tests), and it will show a git hash also.
> > This patch I sent to Wayne privately not to create confusion and
> > disturb the focus of the comming release and fire up the git debate
> > before. This news should make such a transition very easy.
> >
> > 2015-05-06 20:35 GMT+02:00 Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>:
> > > Even if probably it is not the right moment to switch, from now on it
> > > should be much more painless:
> > >
> > > http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Orson
> > >
> > >
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