Magit version available in Vim

[dfishburn]

I don't really see a way to get the version of the plugin that is loaded from within Vim.

The reason I ask, is I am testing over some of the master branch, so I have multiple directories of Magit.

Never really certain which one Vim loaded.

What I like to do in my plugins is take the standard loaded variable:

let g:loaded_magit = 1

Use the release #:

let g:loaded_magit = 160

That way from within Vim I can do:
``
:echo g:loaded_magit

It also helps when I am working with a user, trying to determine which version of my plugin is loaded.

For master you can have:

let g:loaded_magit = master

Of course, that is just one way, if there is some "Github" thing, where you could include the commit id somehow when the the user downloads, or something.

[jreybert]

Do you know if there are any vim plugin doing some versioning?

As long as the proper way to release vim plugin was to package them (in .vba for example), I can see some hack to propose a versioning.

But now, the proper way is to git clone a project, and an installation step is not mandatory at all.

The only way I can see would be to perform some operation on travis for example, performing some ugly sed in some file while the integration of a release branch succeed and commit it. And it would not cover your need, as it would be done only for release integration (I do not want to commit a "versionning patch" each time I push).

Versionning is good! But if it is not automatic, it won't work. If you have any lead about vim plugin versioning, I would be happy to read them!