From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: Joel Dice <dicej@mailsnare.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:20:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609191519090.4388@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060919220604.GE8259@pasky.or.cz>
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> > It might be that "r1.56" was done on another branch, and is totally
> > unrelated to "r1.57" (other than they sharing some common ancestor far
> > back).
>
> This is actually exactly how SVN revision numbering works. There's just
> a single number (no '1.') and it indeed jumps randomly if you have
> several concurrent branches in your (ok, Linus does not have any, just
> someone's) repository.
Oh, ok, if it's just a single numbering, then that's easy to do. It won't
_mean_ anything, and you're seriously screwed if you ever merge anything
else (or use a git that doesn't update the refcache or whatever), but it
is simple and stable within a single repo.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-19 21:07 Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers Joel Dice
2006-09-19 21:18 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-19 21:42 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-19 22:00 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-19 22:24 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-19 22:33 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-19 22:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-09-19 22:39 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-19 21:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-19 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-19 22:06 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-19 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-09-19 23:35 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-20 0:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-20 16:13 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-20 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-20 17:28 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-09-20 18:22 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-20 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-19 22:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-19 22:11 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-19 22:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-19 23:07 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-19 22:18 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-19 22:23 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-19 22:30 ` Joel Dice
2006-09-19 22:09 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-19 22:40 ` Joel Dice
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