On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:50:31PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > For example, now when I run "make dist", rather than getting the always > identically-named coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz, I get tarballs with more > meaningful names: > > coreutils-6.9.220.gdd469.tar.gz > coreutils-6.9.223.g624d1.tar.gz > > Similarly, --version output reflects the snapshot: > > $ src/cat --version| head -1 > cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9.223.g624d1
Since "g" is common prefix produced by git describe, maybe it could be omitted? Also, maybe 4 hexdigits is enough to distinguish snapshots? E.g. 6.9.223.624d instead of 6.9.223.g624d1. -- ldv
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