What if a port doesn't have a version

[matt donovan]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Pietro Cerutti <gahr at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> | On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> |> |> Should I use the version from the installed version after I install
> |> |> cinelerra for the portversion and just tar it up?
> |> |
> |> | Create your own tarball and give it a version which is a
> date-timestamp
> |> | like "20081027"...
> |>
> |> Or use the revision control's revision number.
> |
> | That works well with things like Subversion which ensure that the
> | "revision number" is monotonically increasing.  My understanding of git
> | is that it favors decentralized workareas or repositories without a
> | project-wide unique version number, and it's revisions look like "commit
> | c82a22c39cbc32576f64f5c6b3f24b99ea8149c7" in the logs, which do not
> | compare sensibly when considered as numbers.
>
> ENOCLUE about git. It may well be that my suggestion does not apply to
> this particular RCS. In this case, sorry for the noise :)
>
> |
> | Regards,
>
>
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Thank you for giving suggestions I'll try making my own tarball and adding
the date to it.