Gert, On 28 January 2016 at 15:49, Gert Wollny <gw.foss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Tiago, > > Since git is a distributed VCS, a given date might not be sufficient to > get the exact version, because some developer might edit the source off > -line, and push changes on a later date to the remote repo, but the > commits will carry the date when developer committed the changes to her > local repo. > > Therefore, adding the commit sha is the only way to be sure that you > correctly reference the source tree used to create a package. And > adding a "git" somewhere in the version string makes sure that one > knows how to interpret the version string properly :)
You're completely right. I've not considered the "late push" use case, which can happen even in a perfect-linear-and-rebased tree, resulting in "newer" (at least appearing to be most recent in the tree) commits with older dates. Thanks, Tiago. -- Tiago "Myhro" Ilieve Blog: https://blog.myhro.info/ GitHub: https://github.com/myhro LinkedIn: https://br.linkedin.com/in/myhro Montes Claros - MG, Brasil
