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[Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

2018-03-13 17:44 GMT+02:00 Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I know what the G means, just wish git describe had an option to disable
> it, since it makes copy/paste more tedious.
>
> I think if we had left the tag at rc1, then we'd just have users thinking
> they had rc1 when they really have a newer nightly. Better to make a new
> tag that doesn't include rcN in it, or at least tries to make it a lot more
> obvious that it isn't a RC version despite having those letters in the
> string.
>
>
>
In a project where I took part in we solved a similar problem by using
{previous-tagged-version-number}+{version-control-reference}, for example
5.0RC1+gitXXXXX. We felt the plus sign is less ambiguous.

Eeli Kaikkonen