From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:20:19 GMT Subject: Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060919220604.GE8259@pasky.or.cz> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > It might be that "r1.56" was done on another branch, and is totally > > unrelated to "r1.57" (other than they sharing some common ancestor far > > back). > > This is actually exactly how SVN revision numbering works. There's just > a single number (no '1.') and it indeed jumps randomly if you have > several concurrent branches in your (ok, Linus does not have any, just > someone's) repository. Oh, ok, if it's just a single numbering, then that's easy to do. It won't _mean_ anything, and you're seriously screwed if you ever merge anything else (or use a git that doesn't update the refcache or whatever), but it is simple and stable within a single repo. Linus