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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: GitList <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Test the Git version string
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:22:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8v4k6hp2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365949646-1988-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> (Philip Oakley's message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:27:24 +0100")

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> This patch series seeks to add tests for the version string format
> and document it.
>
> The key questions to be answered are:
> * should the test be inside t0000, or somewhere else?
> * should the version string be limited to one line, <80 characters?

One line, perhaps, but I do not think any byte-limit is reasonable.

It is unreasonable to limit the form to X.Y.Z; after we hit Git 2.0,
it is likely that we would go to two-decimals.

If the "parsing" is done for white/blacklist purposes, is there a
need to straight-jacket the verison string format like this series?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-14 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-14 14:27 [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Test the Git version string Philip Oakley
2013-04-14 14:27 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] test git " Philip Oakley
2013-04-14 14:27 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Doc: State the exact " Philip Oakley
2013-04-14 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-04-14 21:26   ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Test the Git " Philip Oakley
2013-04-15  1:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-16  7:25       ` Philip Oakley
2013-04-16 18:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-16 18:24           ` David Aguilar
2013-04-16 19:02             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-16 21:22           ` Philip Oakley

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