versioning

UPDATE I see that this question has become somewhat popular. It's now years into my admittedly enjoyable Git use, and I have learned a lot since then. Please , pretty please read the last paragraph before going on about your Git adventures with whatever you will have learned from this Q&A. I want to compose application build version that is automatically derived from GIT branch name I am on (when building) and the number of commits since the branch has diverged. I believe this will be unique for any commit in my GIT repository? Branch names are unique, and commits are linked to each other

I have a version number of the following form: version.release.modification where version, release and modification are either a set of digits or the '*' wildcard character. Additionally, any of these numbers (and any preceding .) may be missing. So the following are valid and parse as: 1.23.456 = version 1, release 23, modification 456 1.23 = version 1, release 23, any modification 1.23.* = version 1, release 23, any modification 1.* = version 1, any release, any modification 1 = version 1, any release, any modification * = any version, any release, any modification But these are not valid: *

Stack Overflow has a subversion version number at the bottom: svn revision: 679 I want to use such automatic versioning with my .NET Web Site/Application , Windows Forms, WPD projects/solutions. How do I implement this? saint_groceon Looks like Jeff is using CruiseControl.NET based on some leafing through the podcast transcripts. This seems to have automated deployment capabilities from source control to production. Might this be where the insertion is happening? Brad Wilson We do this with xUnit.net for our automated builds. We use CruiseControl.net (and are trying out TeamCity). The MSBuild

I'm having problems understanding Java versioning. I'm seeing lots of versions like 1.4.2, 1.5 and 1.6, but I also stumble upon 5.0 and 6.0. I don't understand this versioning or the progression. I'm pretty new to Java, and I've read a bit about OpenJDK vs Sun, and I think I understand it. Are these versions the difference between OpenJDK and Sun? For example, OpenJDK's latest is 1.6 and Sun's is 6.0? All these versions are pretty confusing to someone new to Java. The versioning is simply a mess: Java 1.0 and 1.1 were normal Then came Java 1.2, but you were supposed to call it "Java 2, JDK 1.2

I've read a few questions on SO (such as this one ) in regards to versioning your data within a database. I liked some of the suggestions that were mentioned. I have for the longest time wanted (needed) to revision many of my tables but never got around to it. Being a programmer with only simple database work under my belt I was wondering how one would actually go about doing this. I'm not asking for the actual solution in SQL syntax. I can eventually figure that out for myself (or post SO when the time comes). I'm just asking for people to comment as how they would go about doing it and any

I'm looking for pointers, suggestions, and even dictation on how to manage the three different assembly version numbers for a .NET assembly. The Product version is the simplest, as this seems would normally be dictated by business. Then, the file version seems to be for versioning between deployments, where the actual assembly version is only used when shipping. Right now I'm just looking for a simple means of labeling test and maintenance releases of an assembly on which none depend, so I am looking at auto-incrementing build and revision numbers on the file version, and for final release,