D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos, etc.) has moved to github

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Lutger Blijdestijn" <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ihnkgk$g8d$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>>> You can't expect other people to piece together how the
>>> revision number has come to be, that is extremely brittle.
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>> They don't need to piece it together because you can just say...
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>> ...which repository you're talking about.
>> ...which repository you're talking about.
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> ok ok ok ok ok I get it. I spend some quality time with google and have
> found this:
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> $ git describe --tags
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> phobos-2.046-664-g938e1cc
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> So phobos is at the 664th commit since 2.046
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> http://gitfu.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/git-describe-great-another-way-to-
> refer-to-commits/
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Ahh, now *that's* nice. All it needs now (and maybe it already has it) is to 
allow something like "detailedtag{local:phobos-2.046-664}" in place of 
hashes or HEAD@{7} and have it just figure out and use the hash by itself.