Re: [PATCH] fix dist.sh tar-ball name.

Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu> writes:
> Pardon my ignorance beeing a newcomer and all, but why is the repository
> version number interesting at all? You need to know what subdir you are
> referring to anyway, and if you have say /tags/release-0.19, then that is
> all you need to know, isn't it? All newer repository versions should
> contain the same version of the /tags/release-0.19 tree, or else it is not
> working as a tag. I understand that you (technically) *can* update
> /tags/release-0.19, but policy should be to to forbid such actions,
> shouldn't it?

It's only for convenience -- so you can compare your client against
the Subversion logs and know what changes went into it.

-K

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Received on Tue Mar 11 00:51:32 2003