Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2013 14:51, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/06/2013 07:48 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's there to give 'git describe' a fair > shot at working even in a shallow cloned gnulib subproject - otherwise > certain invocations of bootstrap can break the relea

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/06/2013 07:48 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Nothing so exciting I'm afraid, it's there to give 'git describe' a fair shot > at working even in a shallow cloned gnulib subproject - otherwise certain > invocations of bootstrap can break the release rules in maint.mk. > > Jim plans to push a v

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2013 14:48, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Reuben, > > > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > > > I'm intrigued by the version number tag 0.1 I get from a recent gnulib > update, but poking around a) the repo, b) the mailing list arch

Re: Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Reuben, > On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > I'm intrigued by the version number tag 0.1 I get from a recent gnulib > update, but poking around a) the repo, b) the mailing list archive, c) the > sources and d) the web gives no clue as to its mea

Version number tag

2013-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
I'm intrigued by the version number tag 0.1 I get from a recent gnulib update, but poking around a) the repo, b) the mailing list archive, c) the sources and d) the web gives no clue as to its meaning or intended use. Apologies if I've overlooked something, but I'd love to be