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

[Timothy Gu]

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).

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Timothy