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

[Otavio Salvador]

Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> writes:

> 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?

Sure:

otavio at neumann:~/hacking/ossystems/toscoterm$ git describe 
0.1-1-gd834119

Basically this can be read as:

 - last version was 0.1
 - since that we've done 1 commit
 - the sha1sum of it is d834119 (g is always included before it)

Cheers,

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