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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:17:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: Re(2): Re(2): The naming of branches
Message-ID:  <199606101917.VAA05365@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <n1377732754.24577@Richard Wackerbarth> from Richard Wackerbarth at "Jun 10, 96 06:55:22 am"

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As Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

> 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.

This might be true, but we have already once changed our paradigm
(between 2.0 and 2.0.5 -- from RELEASE_X_Y to RELENG_X_Y_Z), and
changing it too often is IMHO causing more confusion than clarity.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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