Re: [PATCH 0/2] Teach org-version to include git version information

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de> writes:

> Dear Carsten,
> dear Bernt,
>
> On 18.08.2009, at 21:15, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if that will work on Windows (with git).  I've only
>>> tested
>>> it on Linux here.  You may want to test drive it before including it.
>>
>> I have already included it, please test
>>
>> M-x org-version
>>
>> on your system and let me know if it causes problems anywhere.
>
> I just did a "make update" on MacOS X 10.5.8 and M-x org-version in
> Aquamacs 2.0pr2 now yields: "release_6.29c.44.ga32e.dirty" (my
> Makefile contains a path modification), according to Bernt's comment
> of commit a5e87a47230030ab4c4bc4521f5af47a7521243a, "44" refers to 44
> commits after "release_6.29c" (neat!). What is the meaning of "ga32e"?

ga32e - the g stands for 'git' and a32e is the first 4 digits of the
SHA1 for that commit.

git show a32e

will show that commit.

The last part of that comment talks about the ga32e part.

,----
|         Org-mode version 6.29trans (release_6.29c.42.g5996)
|     
|     which shows 6.29trans (somewhere after the last release tag) which
|     is 42 commits after release_6.29c at git commit 5996.
`----

-Bernt