Re: [swtbot-dev] Version numbering and git.

[Ketan Padegaonkar <ketanpadegaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any thoughts ?

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Ketan
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On 10/24/10 10:46 PM, Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Short story:
>
> I goofed up big time :-(
>
> I've always been under the (wrong) assumption that the qualifier bit of
> the version was treated as an integer.
>
> Long story:
>
> I noticed an issue when running a build off the git repo.
>
> The version numbering scheme with svn was of the form
> 2.0.0.SVN_REVISION. The svn revision at the current head was in the 600s.
>
> Moving to git would mean changing the qualifier part to a timestamp of
> sorts. The current timestamp begins with '2010' and sorts lower than the
> SVN revision causing eclipse to not upgrade to a newer version.
>
> I can think of bumping the micro component of the version to make the
> version number 2.0.1.TIMESTAMP to get around this issue. Any other ideas ?