[oe] [RFC] Make some big but only formal change before next stable - SRCPV

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:41:59 +0000, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> That does rather sound like a further argument for just not using the
> local count variables at all and just figuring out a monotonic count
> from the SCM (using git-rev-list or whatever) at packaging time.

That sounds rather nice, however I am not sure if git easily gives you
such a number. I know that mercurial does.

spaetz