Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote:
>> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported
>> by 'guix --version' as something like:
>> 
>>      522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5
>> 
>> I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like:
>> 
>>      2018-12-25-522d1b
>> 
>> where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0.
>> 
>> That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique.  (The chances of
>> there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions
>> in the hash should be negligient.)
>> 
>> The package name is currently something like:
>> 
>>      guix-522d1b87b
>> 
>> That could become:
>> 
>>      guix-2018-12-25-522d1b
>> 
>> which is a bit longer but more descriptive.
>> 
>> I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult
>> it would be to implement these changes.
>> 
>> Thoughts?  Worth it?
>
> I think it is worth it, in fact I was on my way to suggest the same.

I like the "git describe" format:

$ git describe
v0.16.0-414-ge99d036828

It does not mention a date, but it can be copy-pasted into "git" and
shows how many commits there were between each generation.

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