Excerpts from Thierry Goubier's message of 2015-03-09 07:06:41 +0100: > Le 09/03/2015 04:20, Sean P. DeNigris a écrit : > > When copying MyPackage-Author-VersionNumber.mcz to an empty GitFileTree > > repository, VersionNumber is not considered, and it appears in the version > > browser as MyPackage-Author-1, which seems confusing. Could it keep the same > > VersionNumber? > > No ;) > > It takes ages to scan the version metadata contained in the git repository.
why is that? it works when being read from an mcz file. how would reading it from git be any different? > This version metadata is wrong in some existing repositories (and > crashes the reader). wrong in monticello repos? > So GitFileTree rebuilts the version (number included) from scratch. what about just extracting the version from the very first commit? and then increment the number for all following commits? greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/
