On 2016-11-29 15:01, Davide Liessi wrote: > 2016-11-29 14:49 GMT+01:00 René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com>: >> On Tuesday November 29 2016 13:28:27 Clemens Lang wrote: >>> You can just use >>> [vercmp $macports_version 2.3.4] > 0 >>> to check whether a bugfix you need is available. >> >> Which will always succeed if you're using a MacPorts base built from master, >> no matter how long that was ago. > > What would you think of a version number of the form > 2.3.99-YYYYMMDD-shorthash, or 2.3.99-unixtime-shorthash? > > See > git log -1 --format=%at-%h > and > git log -1 --date=format:%Y%m%d --format=%ad-%h
Probably should use committer date (%cd) instead of author date (%ad). The latter is not always monotonically increasing, for example when pull requests were rebased onto master in a different order. Rainer
