I am trying to automate the building process of my software and I would like to use tags of the form: RELEASE-1.6.10 which can be embedded in the program so that users get a nice human-friendly version number.

Timeline has the feature of showing all checkins that descend from current. The intention is to feed this into a script which cna detect if a RELEASE has already been used.

The problem is that timeline sometimes splits a tag onto two lines.

Here's an example:

=== 2011-04-10 === 20:44:26 [59a3f097fb] junk (user: davidevans tags: tiger-branch, RELEASE- 1.6.10, jjjj)

This makes life very difficult for script writers.

Could we please have an option of timeline that produces machine-readable text ?

example 2011-04-10T20:46:20 [acdf123456] commit message (user: joe tags: RELEASE-1.6.99 tiger-branch )

anonymous added on 2011-04-11 10:45:51 UTC:
In my message, the posting software has gone and combined separate lines back into one.

Believe me, fossil really does split RELEASE-1.6.10 into

RELEASE-

and

1.6.10

This seems to be a duplicate of Feature Request [e167be3b92].

Closing as dupe of [e167be3b92].