From: Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
jnareb@gmail.com, mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:37:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170538625.7564.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070203212030.GA91453@kobe.laptop>
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 23:20 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Ok, maybe CVS was not so good as an example of why versioned tags *are*
> useful, but my comment came from the experience I have with the tagging
> of FreeBSD release builds. The -STABLE branch os FreeBSD may be tagged
> with RELENG_X_Y_Z_RELEASE at a particular point in time. If we find
> that some important bug fix has to go in, the fix is committed, and the
> tag can 'slide' forward for only a particular file or set of files.
>
This operation is seriously broken. The Z number should be incremented,
the tag should continue pointing at the (now known to be) broken
version. That's exactly what the patchlevel number is for.
If users want to know if there are important security updates around,
they will look at the version number. If you change the revision which
the tag points to you will _seriously_ confuse users, a lot more than a
long list of patchlevel versions will ever do.
Matthias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-03 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 16:20 newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Mike Coleman
2007-01-30 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-30 16:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-31 1:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-31 10:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-31 23:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 0:34 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-01 0:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 7:59 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 10:15 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-01 19:36 ` Eric Wong
2007-02-01 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 9:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 13:51 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 14:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 15:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-02 15:38 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-02 16:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 17:59 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 18:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:28 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 18:27 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-02-02 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:20 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-02-03 21:37 ` Matthias Kestenholz [this message]
2007-02-03 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:26 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:55 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 20:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:03 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 17:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:37 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 18:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 20:06 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-03 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 21:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 17:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 3:38 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-31 7:11 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 15:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-31 16:58 ` Mike Coleman
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