JuliaLang/julia — Issue #541: move git info into VersionNumber?
Author: nolta
Created: 2012-03-08 00:06:53+00:00
State: open

In preparation for non-git src packages, how about moving the git version info into the build number part of VersionNumber?

```
_
_ _ _(_)_ |
(_) | (_) (_) |
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | A fresh approach to technical computing
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.0.0-prerelease+git.1331143345.ea72893483*
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| |
|__/ |

```

A bit more inscrutable, but bonus points for being semantic versioning compliant (i think).