digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 18394] New: wrong `dmd --version` when building from git
- d-bugmail puremagic.com (30/30) Feb 07 2018 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18394
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18394 Issue ID: 18394 Summary: wrong `dmd --version` when building from git master: shows last tag instead of new one Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86 OS: Mac OS X Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: timothee.cour2 gmail.com git rev-parse HEAD 7e8bea0e83314f39b8c8b2bddbfbff2b0bdee74d dmd --version DMD v2.078.2-beta.1-653-g7e8bea0e8 DEBUG DMD64 D Compiler v2.078.2-beta.1-653-g7e8bea0e8 Copyright (C) 1999-2018 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright should show instead the next version, ie something like: v2.079-653-g7e8bea0e8 DEBUG this is confusing in bug reports (eg https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18393 where dmd --version showed v2.078.2-beta.1-653-g7e8bea0e8 even though bug affects master, not 2.078.2-beta.1) basically as soon as one creates a release tag (eg v2.078) the version identifier __VERSION__ should be bumped in git master --
Feb 07 2018