From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200807102057.15063.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <7vk5ftpnek.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Toralf_F=F6rster?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 10 22:38:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KH2uM-0001H6-8z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:38:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753709AbYGJUhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:37:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753983AbYGJUhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:37:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39257 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753647AbYGJUhb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:37:31 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m6AKaQGK010979 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m6AKaQlR013732; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.358 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Nevertheless it _could_ be unique. NO IT COULD NOT! It doesn't matter if it's unique in _one_ repository. What matters is if it is globally unique! Otherwise, people will start sending these version numbers out in emails, and now somethign that was unique in the senders repo is actually not unique at the receivers side (or _is_ unique, but points to something totally different). So no. A revision number like "v2.6.26-rc8-227" is fundamentally and utterly broken. No way it should ever be accepted, even as a "helpful" thing, because it's not helpful at all. It would be a sure way to crap. Linus