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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Version strings for VCS snapshots
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:11:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150924081138.GA7224@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si64u2sy.fsf@netris.org>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:35:41PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I'd like to propose another alternative, which I used for 'grub' on the
> 'wip-loongson2f' branch.  There, the version string is simply the output
> of "git describe".  This gives us lexicographic ordering, and the commit
> id can be extracted with (last (string-split version #\g)).

This looks like the perfect solution to me.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-24  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-18 19:25 [PATCH] Add MARS shooter Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-19  8:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-19 15:44   ` Thompson, David
2015-09-19 20:06     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-19 20:33       ` Thompson, David
2015-09-20  7:51         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-20  9:46           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-25 22:30     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-09-26 13:04       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-19 17:17 ` Eric Bavier
2015-09-20 10:08   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-20 16:30   ` Version strings for VCS snapshots Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-23  6:13     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-23 23:35     ` Mark H Weaver
2015-09-24  8:11       ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2015-09-24 11:12       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-20 15:49 ` [PATCH] Add MARS shooter Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-20 20:19   ` Eric Bavier

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