From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:22:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060107012221.GA7730@mythryan2.michonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7voe2prniw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:37:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> Since I do not understand what that "g"
> stands for anyway, how about doing something like this instead?
I'm pretty sure the "g" is my fault, indirectly. When I submitted the
"AUTO_LOCALVERSION" patch to Linux, I prepended a -g to it, so it would
be possible to tell versions based off of a git tree apart from versions
based off of a CVS tree that used md5 to make a short, semi-unique
indicator. Presumably, a CVS variant would've done something like
-c012345678, etc.
So, it's just a little mnemonic to hint that the extra version string
came from a git tree, as opposed to some other semi-random source. It's
value is rather dubious, overall, though.
--
Ryan Anderson
sometimes Pug Majere
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-30 17:29 [PATCH] rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings John Ellson
2006-01-06 22:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-07 0:04 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-07 0:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-07 1:22 ` Ryan Anderson [this message]
2006-01-14 15:39 ` John Ellson
2006-01-14 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-14 20:25 ` John Ellson
2006-01-14 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-16 9:15 ` Junio C Hamano
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