[haiku-development] Re: Moving away from Subversion (pt 4)

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <adestugu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:36:50 +0100

> Not intending to troll here, but why exactly do you need readable
> version numbers for a DVCS? Are you going to speak them over the
> phone?

Sequential version numbers are the easy way to binary search which 
commit broke some particular feature. I guess some date tag would also 
work, but splitting
in the middle of the search space is just easier with sequential 
numbers.

-- 
Adrien.

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