[oe] [RFH] Support for automatic package versining using git describe

[Koen Kooi]

On 13-02-09 03:32, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of nice features we've been using is the git-describe to get
> versions based on tags; many projects are using it to name the
> development releases and it does give a better view of how diverged it
> from last released version.
>
> So we're looking for a way to use it to generate the PV based on
> that. The current git fetcher already has the required support to get
> tags, so we can use it as SRCREV, but not yet to use git-describe.

Do you have any examples of the output?

regards,

Koen