git version tags

[Stephan Arts]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Nick Schermer<nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/29 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
>> -> X.Y.Zgit-SSSSSSSS
>>
>> * Pros: it's a reasonable length, and lets us uniquely identify the commit
>> that the build is based on.
>> * Cons: we lose all ability to do version order checking.  All we can say is
>> "this build is after X.Y.Z but before X.Y.(Z+1)".
>
> I'd prefer this for the package name/version, that's good enough to
> see what revision someone is using. For the dependency versions, we
> could/should use micro/nano version bumps during development.

I don't think X.Y.Zgit-SSSSSSSS is any more useful then X.Y.Zgit,
usually we only refer to 'latest' when someone reports a bug.

U: 'Feature X is broken'
D: 'I can't reproduce, are you using the latest version?'
U: 'No...'
D: 'Please upgrade first'

See? No need for revision-numbers.

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Stephan