Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Johan Herland wrote:

On Sunday 18 October 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:

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On So, 18 Okt 2009, Johan Herland wrote:

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    $ git describe
    v1.0.4-14-g2414721

where the "v1.0.4" part is the last tag that the current state is based
on, the "14" part is the number of commit between that tag and the
current

So if we have only one tag (initial) then it would count the number
of commits?

Yes. You can create the 'initial' tag with

  git rev-list HEAD | tail -n1 | xargs git tag initial

and from then on

  git describe --tags --match initial | cut -d'-' -f2

Even simpler, without any tag:

	git rev-list HEAD | wc -l

That should roughly give the equivalent of the SVN revision number.  
Valid only in one specific repository of course.


Nicolas