Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:37 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> Jesse Keating escribió:
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:57:07 -0300
> > Martin Marques <martin at marquesminen.com.ar> wrote:
> > 
> >> git<date> from where? Remember that git is distributed and unless you 
> >> have a centralized copy git<date> can have more then one copy.
> >>
> >> IMHO, I've seen many cvs<date>, svn<date>, etc. that it'a when there 
> >> isn't a real version numbering (or patches come from svn, cvs, hg,
> >> git, instead of new tarballs).
> > 
> > Wrong directions.  <date><scm>
> 
> OK, why not <date><scm><sha1-hash>
> 
> The hash lets you identify the git or hg version uniquely.
> 
> With cvs or svn there wouldn't be any hash.

This is exactly what the guidelines say. Is anyone reading them? :P

~spot