Re: RFC: Moving grabber versioning away from CVS $Id$

On 3/7/2017 10:09 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> With a future move away from CVS, grabbers will lose the ability to
> use the CVS "$Id$" file version tag, which is heavily used at the
> moment to provide data for $grabber --version.
>
> I want to start the discussion to see if there is a consensus to move
> grabbers away from using the hardcoded CVS $Id$ tag to a more regular
> internal version number that is manually incremented after a grabber
> is updated.
I think an automatic file version or commit# is very useful in our 
situation.

I'm not a git wizard, but it seems like it could be done with a 
pre-commit script, but that may not work in practice as everyone would 
have their own git install.

How is it normally done in the git world?  A date would be fine as well.

Robert


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