Binutils release 2.28 - soon

[Matthias Klose]

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.