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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Version numbers for VCS snapshots
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:02:32 +0100
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> +
> +It is a good idea to strip commit identifiers to, say, 7 digits so tha=
t
> +they do not become aesthetically disturbing (assuming aesthetics have =
a
> +role to play here.)  It is best to use the full commit identifiers in
> +@code{origin}s, though, to avoid ambiguities.
> +

I would probably find this a little confusing if I didn=E2=80=99t already=
 know
what you meant.  Where should commit identifiers be stripped?  Are there
more places than just the =E2=80=98version=E2=80=99 field?  Could we name=
 the =E2=80=98version=E2=80=99
field as an example?

Is it only aesthetics or also a matter of keeping shebangs shorter (in
case the output provides an interpreter that could end up in a shebang
line).  The version is usually part of the output name, so maybe it
would make sense to mention the =E2=80=98version=E2=80=99 field explicitl=
y.

~~ Ricardo