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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 23, 2005, 20:55 UTC
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Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:52:42PM CEST, I got a letter where Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> told me that...

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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:46:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > If you pulled from "master" branch, then --version would still
> > say 0.99.7; I agree it is confusing.  On the other hand, I do
> > not think we would want to increment the version string with
> > every little changes, so...
> 
> 	Every little change, no.  But ANNOUNCEd releases should be
> considered 'major' from this point of view.  I don't think a little
> extra version number incrementing is too big a deal.

The point is that the bugfix releases aren't tagged on the master branch but on the maint branch.

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Message 6 of 9 in “[ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b”
  1. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2005
  2. waltSep 23, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinSep 23, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2005
  5. Joel BeckerSep 23, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2005

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