>Can any Git experts please comment if there an alternative to doing this this >way.
If you have a moment, take a look at git describe as an idea. It basically gives you the latest tag and a number of commits since then and a hash. Its not a simple sequence, but see if it helps. This one is okay. http://alblue.bandlem.com/2010/11/automatically-tagging-builds-with-git.html Read Me: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Maintaining-a-Project#Generating-a-Build-Number
