Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2013 14:51, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/06/2013 07:48 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > 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 relea

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/06/2013 07:48 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > 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 v

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2013 14:48, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Reuben, > > > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas 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 we

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Reuben, > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas 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. > Apo