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Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 10, 2008, 20:36 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.10.0807101334310.11076@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> Nevertheless it _could_ be unique.
NO IT COULD NOT!

It doesn't matter if it's unique in _one_ repository. What matters is if it is globally unique!

Otherwise, people will start sending these version numbers out in emails, and now somethign that was unique in the senders repo is actually not unique at the receivers side (or _is_ unique, but points to something totally different).

So no. A revision number like "v2.6.26-rc8-227" is fundamentally and utterly broken. No way it should ever be accepted, even as a "helpful" thing, because it's not helpful at all. It would be a sure way to crap.

		Linus
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Message 10 of 19 in “feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227”
  1. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  4. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 10, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  12. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  14. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  15. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  16. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  17. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008

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