[llvm-dev] GitHub anyone?

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On May 31, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Bill Kelly via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Chris Lattner via llvm-dev wrote:
>> Personally, I’m hugely in favor of moving llvm’s source hosting to github at
>> some point, despite the fact that I continue to dislike git as a tool and
>> consider monotonicly increasing version numbers to be hugely beneficial.
> 
> For whatever it's worth, our projects define a `buildnum` git alias:
> 
>  alias.buildnum=!sh -c "git rev-list --all | wc -l"
> 
> So from the shell:
> 
>  $ git buildnum
>  17475
> 
> This number increases monotonically per commit.

It does not work with branches though (we're not really planning to have branches I believe), but more importantly it won't handle cross-repository versioning (how do you relate the number this command prints in the llvm repo to the number it'll print in the clang repo?), which I believe is something important considering our setup.

-- 
Mehdi



> 
> 
> Our build scripts make this number available in various #define forms.
> 
> (We use a little extra scripting logic to also determine whether there
> are currently any unmerged or uncommitted changes, and add an annotation
> to the program version in that case, e.g.  "9.3.17475 [unmerged]")
> 
> 
> It's all stupidly simple, but seems to work well enough for us.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
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