From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:59:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.7b
Message-ID: <7v64squnyu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050923205436.GF10255@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:46:14PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
>> 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...
>
> In ELinks, we pseudo-bump the version number from v1.2.3 to v1.2.3.CVS
> (now v1.2.3.GIT) right after the release.

That's a nice way of doing it.  Maybe I should follow suit.