An option could be to prepend the branch name via something like:
git symbolic-ref -q --short HEAD

To the git describe --long we already have.

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 21:57, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a hard time to understand how  5.99 is better to describe a
> development version. 6.00 was already a bad way to describe it. People
> also were confused. To me .99 seems very arbitrary. Why not .1234?
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 23:20, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ma 8. heinäk. 2019 klo 23.47 Nick Østergaard (oe.n...@gmail.com) kirjoitti:
> >>
> >> How is a number like 99 being any better than the latest release tag?
> >>
> >
> > Did you read the original post, about the current problem? What is the 
> > "latest release tag"? 5.1.0 or 5.1.2? Number like 5.99 is unambiguous (and 
> > more clearly points to the next number, 6.0). Like this, my other 
> > suggestions were that the latest or the next release tag wouldn't be used 
> > at all for development versions. The reason is that it would be clear and 
> > unambiguous for all possible purposes.
> >
> > To add to the original suggestion: -dev ending could be added to make it 
> > even more clear that it's a development version, but can it create problems 
> > for Linux or other package numbering schemes? Probably not, 5.99.0-dev is 
> > smaller than 5.99.1-dev if 5.99-dev would be used for a release candidate. 
> > I wouldn't like using 5.99.0 and then 6.0-rc1 because in alphabetical order 
> > 6.0 comes before 6.0-rc1. Therefore 5.99.0, 5.99.1 etc. would be the 
> > easiest and least ambiguous solution.
> >
> > Eeli Kaikkonen
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