In D53837#1230022, @michaelo wrote:

In D53837#1230021, @driesm wrote:

@michaelo, I rather we keep the bellow fields. You can get them from using git describe --tags.

DISTVERSION= 1.6.2-34
DISTVERSIONSUFFIX= -g73b127

Then I will add a comment how to produce them since I had no clue that Git produces them.

@michaelo, I rather we keep the bellow fields. You can get them from using git describe --tags.

So when I'm understanding correctly, we switch to the ISO timestamp forever.
And in the future when the -devel and normal port diverge more, we use the commit hash and update the iso timestamp to the commit hash in question?

So if we return to using a commit hash, it keeps working with versioning, then it seems reasonable to me.

Hmmmm we should test going to newer versions to avoid a PORTEPOCH bump if we change versioning scheme now, and then want to come back to it later.

Sounds good, go for it!! Lets MFQ the -devel port as @meta suggested.

If it passes poudriere, looks good 2 me!

Ship it!