"Dmitry V. Levin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:50:31PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> For example, now when I run "make dist", rather than getting the always >> identically-named coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz, I get tarballs with more >> meaningful names: >> >> coreutils-6.9.220.gdd469.tar.gz >> coreutils-6.9.223.g624d1.tar.gz >> >> Similarly, --version output reflects the snapshot: >> >> $ src/cat --version| head -1 >> cat (GNU coreutils) 6.9.223.g624d1 > > Since "g" is common prefix produced by git describe, maybe it could be > omitted? Also, maybe 4 hexdigits is enough to distinguish snapshots? > E.g. 6.9.223.624d instead of 6.9.223.g624d1.
Removing the "g" sounds good -- one byte shorter. Though it seems silly to have to manually truncate to length 4 the string I already requested be truncated to 4 with "git-describe --abbrev=4 HEAD". I wondered if that was somehow deliberate, or a bug but haven't investigated.
