Hi Reuben, > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > > I'm intrigued by the version number tag 0.1 I get from a recent gnulib > update, but poking around a) the repo, b) the mailing list archive, c) the > sources and d) the web gives no clue as to its meaning or intended use. > Apologies if I've overlooked something, but I'd love to be enlightened. > > I suspected something libposix related, but couldn't see anything there > either.
Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's there to give 'git describe' a fair shot at working even in a shallow cloned gnulib subproject - otherwise certain invocations of bootstrap can break the release rules in maint.mk. Jim plans to push a version tag every 1000 commits or so. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
