[Nix-dev] RFC: NixOS version string format

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 04/27/2014 12:00 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> For a long time I've felt that the NixOS version string format
>
> VERSION "pre" NUM_COMMITS_SINCE_THE_VERY_BEGINNING

Perhaps I don't understand what you mean. nixos-version for me prints
"14.04pre-" + git-hash

BTW, the number of commits since 14.04 does give a better intuition than 
hash by itself, but IMO the actual commit date seems even better
(and it's supposed to be monotonous, too).

Vlada


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