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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix

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IOIngo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Date
Dec 23, 2005, 16:12 UTC
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On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1?
> > Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me,
> > "b" means "beta" :)
> FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just 
> using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common.
Also sucks because letters after numbers a read as "units".
Just compare 5h, 3kg, 20cm, 9in, 1.3h

Also putting letters after version numbers usally gives me a feeling that the author is not sure about what he does. But this is just me, I guess

I hope util-linux is going to learn all that one day :-)
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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Message 10 of 14 in “[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix”
  1. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinDec 21, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinDec 22, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinDec 22, 2005
  7. Benjamin HerrenschmidtDec 22, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsDec 22, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2005
  10. Ingo OeserDec 23, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 24, 2005
  12. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  13. Krzysztof HalasaDec 24, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinDec 29, 2005

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