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Re: Binutils release 2.28 - soon
On 30.12.2016 06:48, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> thanks! I still think using the date is more expressive than using a
>> commit ID. So what about only bumping the date if the last commit is
>> not a date bump?
>
> In my opinion, git describe is much much more precise than a date.
> Eg:
>
> % git describe
> ref-tag-190-gdda5790
>
> From there, I know that the commit is 190 commits past a tag called
> ref-tag.
This only seems to work when there is a tag once the release branch is created.