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Comment on non-incremental git commitish workaround
 
Gavinandresen (talk | contribs)
Suggestion RE: integers versus strings
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Suggestion: be more explicit that the version in the protocol is a 32-bit integer, that 0.6.0 is represented by the number 60000, and that the 'subversion' field is an arbitrary string.
--[[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]] 19:19, 16 December 2011 (GMT)
Just as a point of information; "git describe" output solves the problem of non-incremental committish.  It does this by providing a base version code (the most recent tag name) the number of commits past that tag and then a little bit of the commitish for the revision in question.
Just as a point of information; "git describe" output solves the problem of non-incremental committish.  It does this by providing a base version code (the most recent tag name) the number of commits past that tag and then a little bit of the commitish for the revision in question.
--[[User:Andyparkins|Andyparkins]] 11:45, 9 December 2011 (GMT)
--[[User:Andyparkins|Andyparkins]] 11:45, 9 December 2011 (GMT)

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Suggestion: be more explicit that the version in the protocol is a 32-bit integer, that 0.6.0 is represented by the number 60000, and that the 'subversion' field is an arbitrary string. --Gavin Andresen 19:19, 16 December 2011 (GMT)

Just as a point of information; "git describe" output solves the problem of non-incremental committish. It does this by providing a base version code (the most recent tag name) the number of commits past that tag and then a little bit of the commitish for the revision in question. --Andyparkins 11:45, 9 December 2011 (GMT)