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From: Tim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com>
Subject: git version numbers
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 06:13:22 +1000
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Hi list,

I was just looking at various versioning schemes, and I came to wonder
about git's one.  Most of the ones out there are of the form
<major>.<minor>.<optional revision> (j.n.r), but git seems to have four,
as in 1.7.5.1.

So, I was wondering what you call each number in the git version; does
the usual j.n.r apply to the last three and the first one is a
"mystery"?  What is the official versioning scheme?  Does each number
have any particular name?


Tim.

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