[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][PATCH] version.sh: Include annotated tag in version string

[Alexander Strasser]

On 2013-11-29 08:57 -0800, Timothy Gu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Make it easier to loosely relate e.g. snapshot builds to releases.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Strasser <eclipse7 at gmx.net>
> > ---
> >
> >   We have come across a complaint about the generated versions
> > identifier strings of random builds being not expressive enough.
> >
> >   Please test to see the result and voice your opinion.
> >
> >  version.sh | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
> > index 8d084c2..ca55317 100755
> > --- a/version.sh
> > +++ b/version.sh
> > @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> >  # check for git short hash
> >  if ! test "$revision"; then
> >      revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --tags --match N 2> /dev/null)
> > +    revision=${revision}-$(cd "$1" && git describe | cut -d- -f1 2> /dev/null)
> 
> I suggest using the RELEASE file as sometimes bad things happen tags
> are not on master (e.g. n2.1).

  Dunno. I can switch to the RELEASE file if that is considered more
reliable. But as you say bad things happen and if could be out of date.

[...]

  Alexander
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