swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> writes:
> "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> skrev: (29 december 2018 > 12:53:04 CET) >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 >>Taylan Kammer <taylan.kam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they >>> immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly >>> live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have. >> >>I also would prefer a string containing the date. >> >>Björn > > +1. Maybe we could do both, first the date then the commits then the hash? Including a date would require more effort, because this format is not supported by git, as far as I know. Support for the output of “git describe” would likely be much easier to implement, but note that this might require missing features to be implemented in guile-git. -- Ricardo