Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly 
> > deceptive during the merge window.
> [...]
> > One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory.
> > 
> > Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like:
> > 
> >  v2.6.31
> >  v2.6.31+
> >  v2.6.32-rc1
> >  v2.6.32-rc1+
> [...]
> > ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after 
> > v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore.
> 
> If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on, 
> everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have 
> to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always.

I think you misunderstood - the + would just be a shortcut for the 
long-form precise version string.

	Ingo
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