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Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 19, 2006, 22:11 UTC
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<20060919221111.GF8259@pasky.or.cz>
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<eeppkl$rm9$2@sea.gmane.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:07:08AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...

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> Joel Dice wrote:
> > Rationale:
> > 
> > Incrementing revision numbers (IRNs - an acronym I just made up) are 
> > useful in that they can be treated as auto-generated tags which are easier 
> > to remember and communicate than SHA hashes, yet do not require extra 
> > effort to create like real tags.  Also, they have the advantage of being 
> > chronologically ordered, so if I assert that a bug was fixed in revision 
> > 42 of a shared repository, everyone may assume that revision 45 has that 
> > fix as well.
> 
> That is true _only_ if you have linear history. If you have multiple
> concurrent branches, revision 42 can be in branch 'next', revision '45' in
> topic branch 'xx/topic' which forked before revision 42, and do not have
> the fix.

Oops, I've completely overlooked that bit of the rationale. Of course IRNs cannot assure this.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 21 of 28 in “Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers”
  1. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2006
  3. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  4. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2006
  5. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceSep 19, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinSep 19, 2006
  8. Shawn PearceSep 19, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiSep 19, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2006
  13. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiSep 20, 2006
  15. Joel DiceSep 20, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  17. Robin RosenbergSep 20, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2006
  20. Jakub NarebskiSep 19, 2006
  21. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2006
  22. Jakub NarebskiSep 19, 2006
  23. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  24. Shawn PearceSep 19, 2006
  25. Shawn PearceSep 19, 2006
  26. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006
  27. Shawn PearceSep 19, 2006
  28. Joel DiceSep 19, 2006

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