On 6 November 2013 14:48, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
> > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm intrigued by the version number tag 0.1 I get from a recent gnulib
> update, but poking around a) the repo, b) the mailing list archive, c) the
> sources and d) the web gives no clue as to its meaning or intended use.
> Apologies if I've overlooked something, but I'd love to be enlightened.
> >
> > I suspected something libposix related, but couldn't see anything there
> either.
>
> Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's there to give 'git describe' a fair
> shot at working even in a shallow cloned gnulib subproject - otherwise
> certain invocations of bootstrap can break the release rules in maint.mk.
>
> Jim plans to push a version tag every 1000 commits or so.
>
Thanks. I saw the commit messages about shallow clones when I looked at the
logs directly leading up to the first tag, but didn't make the connection.
Maybe this warrants a disclaimer in the README? ("The version tags in git
are not 'real' version numbers."?)
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