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Re: Numeric Revision Names?

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2008, 09:19 UTC
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2008/10/5 André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>:
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> This is so true in a corporate environment with centralized
> repositories, then I completely agree
> that in the case git is being used in this model (many companies are
> really used to that), the
> monotonic revision number is helpful and sometimes is showstopper to
> not have them.
But you do have them, even now. With that simple hook script.

And outside of your small corporation noone needs them (and your company doesn't need them either, they just can't get over the mindset of rcs or vms native versioning or whatever else they're plainly used to).

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