How to manage the version number in Git?

Question

Let\'s imagine the blerp command line tool maintained on git. This tool has the (hidden) --version option which returns its version (let\'s say 0.1.2

Answer 1

Revision numbers should be maintained by you, not by git. As, opposed to SVN, you don't have a incremental revision number growing on each commit, there's no way out of the box to git to contextualize what your version is.