[FFmpeg-devel] [CHECKLIST] what is preventing us from switch to git

[Michael Karcher]

Am Samstag, den 12.06.2010, 07:13 -0400 schrieb compn:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:37:17 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >I noticed that more and more people started to use git instead of svn to 
> >contribute to ffmpeg, I'm wondering if the times are now mature to 
> >switch to git.
> was a suitable workaround for revision numbers made?
> 
> i dislike having to use hashes as a way to tell how old an ffmpeg
> version is.

Try "git describe". It prints out the latest tag and the number of
commits on top of it.

Regards,
  Michael Karcher