Re: [orca-list] Git Version in Master?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Wow, that looks like complicated git commanding. I'll look it and see
how that will work for us. I like having the version 3.13-something
though. But you make a good point when matching up to commit numbers.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm utterly amazed at how many git
commandsthere are. I don't know the half of them.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Peter V?gner wrote:
> Hello,
> Perhaps you might consider changing your PKBUILD version string then.
> I suggest something like
>
> pkgver() {
>     cd ${pkgname}
>     echo $(git rev-list --count HEAD)+g$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
> }
>
> What will output something like
> 6745+gbea2900
> We will get increasing number as the new commits are added and we will be
> able to identify the commit the resulting build corespond with. And it does
> not contain package name plus other over ververbosed bits from the
> description.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 30.04.2014 06:41, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:49:20PM EST, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I see that the master version of Orca says 3.13pre1 but when I do a
> > > 'git describe' after the most recent git pull, I get
> > > ORCA_3_11_90-102-gacb131f. My package build script for the Arch Linux
> > > orca-git package uses this command to automatically determine the
> > > correct orca version. Is there a reason git still thinks master is in
> > > the 3.11.90 range rather than something like 3.13?
> > Orca 3.12 was branched before the 3.12 tag was created. If you were to run the same command in the 3.12 
> > branch, you would get the 3.12 tag as the base of the output from git describe.
> >
> > I would have thought 3.12 branch would have been done once the 3.12 release was tagged in master, but I 
> > guess we all work differently. :)
> >
> > Luke
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