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Re: Version numbers for VCS snapshots
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: Version numbers for VCS snapshots |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:44:24 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:40:41AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > That sounds good to me. There was some discussion of how much of the
> > hash to keep here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-12/msg00136.html
> >
> > I like this method that I've seen in some of the packages, because it
> > keeps the version tidy while preserving the full hash:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > (define-public hello
> > (let ((commit "e8e46123cfe62170a2f7f79db6b471b66ae36947"))
> > (package
> > (name "hello")
> > (version (string-append "2.10-1" (string-take commit 8)))
> > (source (origin
> > (method git-fetch)
> > (uri (git-reference
> > (url "git://git.sv.gnu.org/hello.git")
> > (commit commit)))
> > (sha256
> > [...]
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I like this approach (though I’ve been taking 9 characters of the commit
> ;)).
I like 10 but I wanted to match your example upthread ;) It doesn't
matter so much if you preserve the full hash as in this case; you can
always add more characters later.
>
> ~~ Ricardo
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