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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b
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walt wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> GIT 0.99.7b
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Or, if you use git already:
>>
>>     {http,rsync}://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
> 
> 
> I did it that way and now I see this:
> 
> $git --version
> git version 0.99.7
> 
> This is a bit confusing.  Did I upgrade or downgrade?
> Maybe the version string should contain the same kind
> of hexadecimal string that Linus is appending to his
> kernel version?
> 

Or just call it 0.99.7.1 and .2 or 0.99.8 and .9.

	-hpa