[FFmpeg-devel] [CHECKLIST] what is preventing us from switch to git

[compn]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:46:14 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:37:17 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>>I noticed that more and more people started to use git instead of svn to 
>>>contribute to ffmpeg, I'm wondering if the times are now mature to 
>>>switch to git.
>>>
>>>Could you please raise (again) your concerns about switching to git?
>>
>> was a suitable workaround for revision numbers made?
>>
>> i dislike having to use hashes as a way to tell how old an ffmpeg
>> version is.
>
>We could easily add the date/time to the version string printed by
>ffmpeg.  Would that be helpful?

how does this help if user compiles 4 year old version?
e.g. svn co -r 5000, and date compiled is 2010?

-compn