Hmm …

Posted Nov 3, 2018 14:36 UTC (Sat) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Hmm … by k8to
Parent article: Apache Subversion 1.11.0 released

I get the impression people in this thread aren't familiar with `git describe`, so here's what it gives you:

<last-version-tag-on-this-branch>-<number-of-commits-since-that-tag>-g<sha1-of-the-last-commit>

The first parts ensure that version numbers produced by `git describe` are monotonically increasing (assuming you tag your versions in a sensible way), and the last part ensures anyone can quickly locate the right commit if they want to.