From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:25:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git version numbers
Message-ID: <20110530142544.GB31490@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110530060653.GB3723@Imperial-SD-Longsword>

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:06:55PM +1000, Tim Mazid wrote:

> While we're on the topic, though, when I was scouring the web for
> information, I found a post [1] which spoke against the traditional
> numbering versioning system.  Personally, I disagree and find the
> "dating" version cumbersome and uninformative.  So, I was wondering what
> your [2] take on this is.

I agree with you. I am sympathetic to the position that giant version
numbers can be confusing to end users, but I hope it is clear from my
previous email that each of those numbers has a meaning, and that
developers, system administrators, and clueful users can see from the
version number what they should expect to change. A simpler versioning
scheme loses that information.

-Peff