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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers? |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:17:54 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Denys Duchier <address@hidden>
> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > We'll see. Personally, I've _already_ found considerable value in
> > branch labels in version ids when I start working with someone's
> > archive who has asked me to merge in some changes.
> "branch labels in version ids"??? I am not sure how to interpret
> that.
Er..... "branch labels [and!] version ids". Sorry.
> Naming branches is of course emminently useful. It's the
> additional level of hierarchy
Don't think of it as a hierarchy. That's how stuff is stored, sure
-- but think of it as a two-dimensional space.
> Why not make it just part of the branch name?
So that, for example, I can browse using wildcarding of either the
branch or version.
-t
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?, Zack Brown, 2003/09/10