[astrobe_]

There's the commit hash. Basically the "version number" is the commit hash, the human-generated (version) numbers added to it are merely progress indicators, which might be randomly useful. But for a project that has 1 branch, 0 tags and nearly 2000 commits, that's not really important.

[apgwoz]

yes, the entire exercise isn’t important. It just breaks the monotonicity that version numbers typically have. At that point, just call your version <progress>.sha