Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:28:50 +0100 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: arch@FreeBSD.org Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <20020131112850.GB28361@cobweb.example.org> In-Reply-To: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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Hi Sheldon, the only drawback I see to your approach is that the serial number you are proposing is dateless, so folks will probably ask for a date too: > This problem was introduced in serial number 11809 and was > corrected in serial number 11832. My suggestion is to use a serial number bound to the date the serial number was generated, something like 20020223123435XXXX yyyymmddhhmmss with XXXXX set to the precision you consider appropriate, and the date being GMT. Or maybe something like 20020223-XXXX yyyymmdd where XXXX is the number of changes made in that day up to this change. One difference is that with your proposal two successive serial numbers have a difference of 1, for example 11833 - 11832 = 1, while with mine you loose this. My 0.02 euros marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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