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Re: git-version-gen


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: git-version-gen
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:38:56 -0700
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On 11/13/2011 03:18 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Yes, since that allows you the freedom to have more tags than just
>> official releases.  (I frequently have local tags to intermediate
>> points, but only push official v1.0 style tags upstream, but since the
>> command runs locally, git describe tries to use my local tags unless I
>> use --match).
> 
> Ok.  But what is the harm if the --match is not done?  You would get a
> version string based on your own tags, but how does that matter?

If you are using incremental version strings (such as coreutils), by
using git-version-gen as part of configure.ac, then every build you do
locally would pick up on your local tags instead of the latest release
tag, if you omit the --match.  Yes, at release time, the latest tag is a
release tag; but it is during the incremental development (such as
posting candidate snapshots to the platform-testers list) where --match
saves the day.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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