From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:09:20 -0800 Message-ID: <44223B90.3040500@zytor.com> References: <20060322133337.GU20746@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 23 07:09:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FMJ0r-0002Kt-L3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:09:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750759AbWCWGJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:09:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751162AbWCWGJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:09:35 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:2013 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750759AbWCWGJe (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:09:34 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.16] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2N69KiN000443 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:09:20 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It _seems_ that the reason for that is that cvsps considers a revision > number of 1.1.1.1 to have a "dot depth" of 0, for some really strange > reason (it's a total special case). > Probably because in 99% of all cases, revision 1.1.1.1 is the result of a "cvs import". -hpa