On 2025-09-05 at 12:14:38, Jonas Rebmann wrote: > In snapshot builds of git, git-version uses a modified variant of the > git-describe output, e.g. 2.51.0.178.g2462961280 instead of > 2.51.0-178-g2462961280 for seemingly historical reasons. > > This is not semver compliant which makes the output harder to parse in > tooling such as b4, which currently errors out when using a snapshot > build of git. Git doesn't follow SemVer. We make breaking and incompatible changes without bumping the major version all the time, so it doesn't make sense to say that we should follow SemVer for version numbers. I would say that since Git has had this version number format for a long time, b4, which is much newer and should be designed to work with Git, should gracefully handle the Git version number rather than have Git conform to b4. -- brian m. carlson (they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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