How do you track the build count of your library when there are multiple authors using version control?

Question

I don\'t know if this is something common for people to do or not, but I personally always keep track of the number of times I built my code. That is, both the number of tim

Answer 1

Your solution with a build log (one line per build) seems pretty clever. You could add the IP (or Mac address) of the machine doing the build do you timstample so you would remove the risk of duplicated line. However depending of your VCS you probably have to merge manually your build log file. With git you can configure it so the merge will always keep both versions (and eventually sort lines by date, etc.)