From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:52:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20050923205242.GY27375@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <7voe6ki9x7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xxnbjhl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: walt , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 23 22:53:46 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EIuXM-00051B-8s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:52:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751143AbVIWUwt (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:52:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751264AbVIWUwt (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:52:49 -0400 Received: from rgminet02.oracle.com ([148.87.122.31]:61385 "EHLO rgminet02.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbVIWUwt (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:52:49 -0400 Received: from rgmsgw03.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw03.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.53]) by rgminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j8NKqhTN027655; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:52:43 -0600 Received: from rgmsgw03.us.oracle.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw03.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j8NKqgMb029539; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:52:42 -0600 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.118.41]) by rgmsgw03.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j8NKqgKg029534 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:52:42 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EIuXC-0006aI-3E; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:52:42 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8xxnbjhl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:46:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If you pulled from "master" branch, then --version would still > say 0.99.7; I agree it is confusing. On the other hand, I do > not think we would want to increment the version string with > every little changes, so... Every little change, no. But ANNOUNCEd releases should be considered 'major' from this point of view. I don't think a little extra version number incrementing is too big a deal. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #451 "Don't be afraid to say, 'I'm sorry.'" Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127