Subject: Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:21:48 +0200

Norbert Preining schrieb:
> On So, 18 Okt 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>> of the *content* is non-linear, the sequence of values stored in 
>> refs/heads/master on your central server is linear, local, and easy to 
>> enumerate.
> 
> That is exactely what I need.

You can always run 'git rev-list master | wc -l' to get a sequence number.
You can throw in --first-parent if you do not want to count commits that
entered master through a merge commit.

You can configure your reflogs such that they do not expire. Then you
count the entries in the reflog.

-- Hannes