On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:44 PM Keith Bennett via Boost
If you're trying to put something line "Generated from commit <SHA1>"
I don't think this is particularly friendly to users, and it is a brittle solution anyway. I know of one library that tries to do this of course, make what you will of the author: https://github.com/ned14/outcome/blob/b9e664fbf87a4122731f7f19590abad24f1448... Beast simply keeps its own version number which I increment *every* time there are new commits placed on the branch. I do this for Beast because users may need security updates in between Boost releases: https://github.com/boostorg/beast/commits/master The tip of the master and develop branches *always* has a version-setting commit. This eliminates any possible confusion about what code someone is using. Thanks