On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:50:11 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
> 
> > "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> skrev: (29
> > december 2018 12:53:04 CET)  
> >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100
> >>Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they
> >>> immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can
> >>> certainly live with that format too. Definitely better than what
> >>> we have.  
> >>
> >>I also would prefer a string containing the date.
> >>
> >>Björn  
> >
> > +1. Maybe we could do both, first the date then the commits then
> > the hash?  
> 
> Including a date would require more effort, because this format is not
> supported by git, as far as I know.
> 
> Support for the output of “git describe” would likely be much easier
> to implement, but note that this might require missing features to be
> implemented in guile-git.

If that is easier to implement, sure.

Björn