Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On So, 18 Okt 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  #2 Do not give such sequential number locally; the central repository is
>     the _only_ place that assigns such a number.  '?' stands for
>     'unnumbered'

[...]

> Scheme #2 is a way to get some stablility; give the authority of numbering
> to the central repository and commits that haven't hit the central
> repository are left unnumbered.  But that is generally not very useful
> for your purpose of giving incrementing version number for building (the
> developers would want to build for testing before finally committing to
> publish the result to the central place).

That problem we have anyway with subversion, too, because as long as you
do not commit your changes nothing will happen on package rebuild.
So that is not a problem here.

Yes, we want server-sided linear numbers and anything *not* pushed to
the server is unnumbered.

And that is also fine, because packages are built only from the server.

Best wishes

Norbert

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