I'm normally use git describe to generate version and build numbers for my builds. In trying to improve the method to handle cases where no tags exists I ran into "Git Commit Generation Numbers" which could be a useful number.
Is the generation number stored and if so is there an easy way to retrieve the number?
I know there's at least one alternative approach in using git rev-list --count HEAD. While I use the hash in the build number as well it's not really adequate as it loses all sense of order.
