From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:11:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <94a0d4530808290911j32bf5ee0q869dfe39483297f8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080829152451.GA20629@yugib.highrise.ca>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> wrote:
> * Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu> [080801 00:00]:
>> Jeff King has convinced me that it's perfectly legitimate to introduce
>> non-upward compatibilities in minor version releases of "young"
>> software.
>
> This is the gist of the problem.  You keep hammering about a
> "non-upwards compatibilities in minor version releases", yet you have
> *not* pointed out one such in-compatibility in a minor version release..
>
> Remember, in git, 1.6 is a "major version" release, with release notes, etc.
> 1.5.X is a "minor version" release.
> 1.5.X.Y is a "patch" release.

What is X (2.0)?

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Felipe Contreras