Add script to automatically update version with a datestamp upon commit.

sandbox/version-commit

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Use this script to make commits. It will automatically update the version
+# string to have a datetime stamp, prior to committing.
+# All arguments get passed to git commit, so of course, use the -a option so that 
+# the version change gets added to the commit.
+echo "Updating version..."
+perl -pi -e  "s/^version\s*=\s*['\"]([\S]+)[ '\"].*/version = '\1 ($( date -Iseconds ))'/" src/version.py
+if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
+    git commit $@
+fi

src/version.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """stick the various versioning attributes in here, so we only have to change
 them once."""
-version = '0.83.4.1+gribble'
+version = '0.83.4.1+gribble (2010-08-20T11:08:31-0400)'