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Date:      10 Jun 1996 06:55:22 -0500
From:      "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        "FreeBSD Hackers" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Subject:   Re(2): Re(2): The naming of branches
Message-ID:  <n1377732754.24577@Richard Wackerbarth>

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In a dialog with Rodney Grimes:

> I have no problem with that, but sending this to me in private email is
> not going to get it to happen, I am not the repository manager, this needs
> to be on the list or it won't happen....

I recognize that private e-mail (unless perhaps with the "person in charge")
is not going to cause changes. However, I also prefer using private e-mail
when continuing a discussion and only posting summaries that may be of general
interest..

Therefore, I post this summary:

I my discussion with Rodney Grimmes about the history of the naming
conventions in the cvs tree, I commented that I thought that the name "2_1"
was more appropriate than "2_1_0" for the "head" of the 2.1 branch because
that branch includes 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, etc.

To this he replied:
> > > That is up to the CVS manager and release team to decide, 
> > > but the rational of having them be a tuple is that they are 
> > > all the same length and it makes it quite easy to see the _BP, 
> > > _RELEASE, _ALPHA, etc no matter what level you are at.  
> > 
> > In that case call it "2_1_X". It is confusing to be looking for 
> > something that comes after 2.1.5 and find it under 2.1.0.
> 
> I have no problem with that, but sending this to me in private email is
> not going to get it to happen, I am not the repository manager, this needs
> to be on the list or it won't happen....

-- 
Richard Wackerbarth
rkw@dataplex.net

--

...computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
only 1/2 tons.      --  Popular Mechanics, March 1949




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