how to correctly keep version information
Martin Geisler
mg at lazybytes.net
Thu Jul 9 07:30:52 CDT 2009
"rupert.thurner" <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> writes:
> hi,
>
> we have multiple branches for versions. an update is done lets say in
> the branch prod, and then gets merged into the default branch.
>
> but there is one properties file contianing the version number. how do
> you best handle such version information so it does not get merged
> into the default branch? "not merge" property like svn? patch queue?
>
> how does mercurial do that mercurial --version prints the correct
> version?
We use 'hg id' when setup.py is run.
You should take a look at the nearest extesion which is designed to help
with this situation:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/NearestExtension
--
Martin Geisler
VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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