swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> writes: > On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote: >> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported >> by 'guix --version' as something like: >> >> 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5 >> >> I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like: >> >> 2018-12-25-522d1b >> >> where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0. >> >> That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique. (The chances of >> there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions >> in the hash should be negligient.) >> >> The package name is currently something like: >> >> guix-522d1b87b >> >> That could become: >> >> guix-2018-12-25-522d1b >> >> which is a bit longer but more descriptive. >> >> I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult >> it would be to implement these changes. >> >> Thoughts? Worth it? > > I think it is worth it, in fact I was on my way to suggest the same.
I like the "git describe" format: $ git describe v0.16.0-414-ge99d036828 It does not mention a date, but it can be copy-pasted into "git" and shows how many commits there were between each generation.
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