From debian-devel Tue Sep 15 03:48:06 2015 From: Pau Garcia i Quiles Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 03:48:06 +0000 To: debian-devel Subject: Re: version format for git snapshot Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=debian-devel&m=144228892828783 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--001a1142a3c4ebac4d051fc10dc0" --001a1142a3c4ebac4d051fc10dc0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is what I generally do: last release + "git" + ISO 8601 date and > time > > + 10-char substring of the commit id. I. e: > > > > 0.5+git20150531T211420-cdd9d98f2c-1 > > IME it is in fact useful to have version numbers that stand a chance of > fitting in people's short-term memory. > > That's definitely an advantage of your schema over my schema. The idea of having the commit id in the version string was to make versions (easily) machine processable. But if one is not going to release more than one snapshot a day (and I guess very few people do -- I rarely do!), then it's something to consider, definitely. Hmmm I'll have to think what to do next time I'm going to package snapshots! :-) Thank you for sharing! -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) --001a1142a3c4ebac4d051fc10dc0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> This is what I generally do: last release + "git" + ISO 8601= date and time
> + 10-char substring of the commit id. I. e:
>
> 0.5+git20150531T211420-cdd9d98f2c-1

IME it is in fact useful to have version numbers that stand a chance= of
fitting in people's short-term memory.





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