[Rd] R CMD check warning about compiler warning flags

[Iñaki Úcar]

2017-12-25 12:30 GMT+01:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
> The one negative aspect of Winston's effort is caused by this weakness. If
> you tell me that something happened in revision 73909, I know it was recent.
> If you tell me that something appeared in commit 2e80059, it wastes my time
> looking up that commit and putting it in context.

The output from "git describe" is something similar to an svn
revision: it describes the number of commits since the previous
annotated tag. Something like <tag_name>-<#commits>-g<commit_hash>,
e.g., v3.5.0-56-1234567.

Iñaki