On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Dr. Trigon dr.trigon@surfeu.ch wrote:
I'd suggest using semantic version numbers (http://semver.org/) for git annotated tags (make sure to push them to the server too) and then use `git describe` as a reasonable approximation of the SVN revision number, but with more information provided as to the significance of changes than a simple revision counter.
Sound good - can you explain how to make this automatic?
The version numbers need to be assigned by the developers since only they know whether it's a new patch release, minor version release, or major release.
git tag -a -m "Next major release" v3.0.0 git push origin --tags
The version number can be merged into the source by a build script or git's pseudo-keyword expansion
VERSION=`git describe` http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-2.html#Keyword-Expansion
The format that git describe uses looks like
v3.0.0-46-g71a77dc
which would be 46 commits after 3.0.0 with the given hash as the latest commit.
Tom