From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 21 08:09:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA17633 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA17626 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14982; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:08:54 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com> References: <199711210327.NAA00434@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Nov 21, 97 01:57:10 pm" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:04:31 -0600 To: chad@dcfinc.com From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Version Resolution? Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:43 PM -0600 11/20/97, Chad R. Larson wrote: >No, you want it generated at the time of the commit as it uniquely >identifies the state of the repository. Identifying the fetch doesn't >accomplish what we're talking about, which is to be able to say, "I'm >running 2.2.5-STABLE-9711201835 and the screen colors are all wrong." > >It's meant to be useful to the folks doing support. As many of us have discussed, "2.2.5-971120" is probably quite adequate for the purpose. If something affecting "screen colours" was entered around that time or if a fix had been committed after that point, you would, at least, have a good point to start the investigation. Richard Wackerbarth