Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 21:50:09 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Numbering for cvs-cur Message-ID: <14554.1054583409@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:40:16 CDT." <3EDBA820.8070703@math.missouri.edu>
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In message <3EDBA820.8070703@math.missouri.edu>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith write s: >Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> Welcome to the new ctm-users mailing list. I thought I would get a >> discussion going by discussing an issue we will face in about nine >> months time. cvs-cur goes through about 100 deltas per month, which >> indicates that the current numbering system is going to run out in about >> nine months. >> > >A while back, someone (I forget who) suggested that I simply try the >software out to see what would happen when the 4 digits run out for >numbering the cvs-cur deltas. Well, I am happy to report that the >programs seem to seemlessly switch to 5 digits. You should see this >happen with cvs-cur sometime at the end of this year. The change should >be largely transparent. (If a problem should later arise, I will deal >with it then, probably by restarting at 100.) You guys have _no_ idea how amazed I am that this would ever become an issue :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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