Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2019-01-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Marius Bakke skribis: > I like the "git describe" format: > > $ git describe > v0.16.0-414-ge99d036828 I’d love that. We just need to add the missing bindings to Guile-Git. Hint hint. ;-) As for the date, note that ‘guix describe’ displays the generation’s date already. Thanks, Ludo’

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-31 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 30.12.18 um 03:48 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: > The problem with dates from git commits is that git makes no attempt to > keep commits in cronological order, and timezone adds interesting issues > to the mix. For example: Though *author* dates might not be in cronological order, *commit* dates a

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-12-26, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > swedebugia ezt írta (időpont: 2018. dec. 25., K, > 22:39): >> On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote: >> > Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported >> > by 'guix --version' as something like: >> > >> > 522d1b87bc88dd459

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-29 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:50:11 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > swedebugia writes: > > > "Björn Höfling" skrev: (29 > > december 2018 12:53:04 CET) > >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 > >>Taylan Kammer wrote: > >> > >>> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they > >>> im

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
swedebugia writes: > "Björn Höfling" skrev: (29 december 2018 > 12:53:04 CET) >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 >>Taylan Kammer wrote: >> >>> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they >>> immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly >>> live wi

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-29 Thread swedebugia
"Björn Höfling" skrev: (29 december 2018 12:53:04 CET) >On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 >Taylan Kammer wrote: > >> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they >> immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly >> live with that format too. Definitely be

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-29 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 Taylan Kammer wrote: > I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they > immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly > live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have. I also would prefer a string containin

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-27 Thread Taylan Kammer
I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have. - Taylan On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:02 PM Marius Bakke wrote: > > swedebugia writes: > > > On 2018-1

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-26 Thread Marius Bakke
swedebugia writes: > On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote: >> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported >> by 'guix --version' as something like: >> >> 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5 >> >> I think it would be really nice if instead it were someth

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-26 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, swedebugia ezt írta (időpont: 2018. dec. 25., K, 22:39): > > On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote: > > Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported > > by 'guix --version' as something like: > > > > 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5 > > > > I thin

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-25 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote: Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported by 'guix --version' as something like: 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5 I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like: 2018-12-25-522d1b wher

Better names for Guix versions from git?

2018-12-25 Thread Taylan Kammer
Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported by 'guix --version' as something like: 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5 I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like: 2018-12-25-522d1b where the date is the commit's date (year, month,