Re: Bug#515154: ITP: gitg -- git repository viewer for gtk+/GNOME
]] Dmitrijs Ledkovs
| 2009/2/15 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
| >
| > Tollef Fog Heen dijo [Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 06:42:37PM +0100]:
| > > | when i've had to do this in the past i think i did something like
| > > | <vers>~<YYYYMMDD>.git.<sha>. this way you get lots of relevant info, the
| > > | fact that it's a prerelease of <vers>, the date the snapshot was taken,
| > > | the fact that it's a git snapshot, and the sha sum. and of course it's
| > > | sortable.
| > >
| > > If you use $vers~$ymd.git.$sha or something like that, please do make
| > > sure the version number slightly bigger than zero. Having version
| > > numbers that are positive and less than 0 sometimes breaks tools.
| >
| > Given that I kept staring at your message thinking something just went
| > wrong, I suppose somebody else might fall in that logic trap: How can
| > something be "positive but not bigger than zero"? 0~20090215 is. Nice
| > math-breaking rules we had to introduce here :)
Yes, it's quite confusing.
| Is it the -0 from the limits theory???? =D
|
| Or -0 is negative?
No. It's a positive (version) number smaller than both -0 and 0. (To
make matters worse, there's not just one of those, there's an infinity
of them (0~1 is also smaller than 0, so is 0~n for all n).
I think the fix here is «don't think the version number is a normal
number», because it isn't.
--
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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