[asdf-devel] *ASDF-REVISION*

[Gary King]

Hi Robert,

I didn't know about --tags; please try now and see what shakes out.

We should think more about


> http://www.question-defense.com/2009/03/13/software-revision-numbers-with-git-tag-and-git-describe/
>

This, by the way, was my birthday and therefore some sort of sign of  
the cosmic unconscious.

> I believe that if we were to get your tags into our clones of your
> repository, we could figure out a way to get the *ASDF-REVISION* set
> properly.
>

Yes.

> Any reason why we shouldn't just butcher a version number string into
> the file when we release it, instead of doing the current rigamarole?
> Or is there a git wizard, who can supply a better alternative?


Well, the tag is in the _released_ file; just not in the repo; that'll  
be the next step.

thanks again,
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