These are the git repo commit hashes. Yes, you are correct that they do not explicitely convey a cronological ordering. But they implicitely do so, since they point to specific commits in the git tree. Since git is distributed, there really no way (as far as I can tell) of attributing sequential numbers to commits, because there may be developers creating new commits in their own branches or remote repos, and there's no central authority emitting such ascending order numbers.
We could, of course, append a date&time string to the version-id if the concern is that we'd like to grasp the age of a certain build. If the concern is bug tracking, then a query to the git tree will show you precisely where a certain commit is located, based on its hash.
2017-06-23 8:21 GMT-03:00 alvinpenner <penner@...1856...>:
- currently, if I compile Inkscape from gitlab, it reports the rev number as
follows: Inkscape 0.92+devel unknown Are there any plans to include a rev number into this report?
- currently, if I execute git log, I get the following sequence of commit
numbers: commit 213013a5a08d37bd29da167eece256be75cebe7c commit 0868ec95edd45394fcf583bf3f1cfa311e8a4c1d commit f836a482511f299034e84f2e153f31698904f92b commit 27f13805c97fcb517982009e2bfb3fd9ad6e413f commit 6e1ecba04f030e650e12edec2ad7a57530c661e4 commit 506e737427861bc1d288c498723d63d56a8075ce commit 0edfdf950796befdb42ab9b2ef76c76483d9dbb1
where I have edited out the text info. I am not able to detect the chronological sequence of these numbers. I understand that the first 8 digits can be used as a shorthand, but these do not seem to be chronologically ordered either. For purposes of bug tracking it would be very helpful to be able to report a rev number that was chronologically ordered. Are there any plans to do so, or am I missing something really obvious here?
Alvin
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