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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:04:31 -0600
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        chad@dcfinc.com
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Version Resolution?
Message-ID:  <l03110706b09b6048a8a5@[208.2.87.4]>
In-Reply-To: <199711210543.WAA05046@freebie.dcfinc.com>
References:  <199711210327.NAA00434@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Nov 21, 97 01:57:10 pm"

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At 11:43 PM -0600 11/20/97, Chad R. Larson wrote:
>No, you want it generated at the time of the commit as it uniquely
>identifies the state of the repository.  Identifying the fetch doesn't
>accomplish what we're talking about, which is to be able to say, "I'm
>running 2.2.5-STABLE-9711201835 and the screen colors are all wrong."
>
>It's meant to be useful to the folks doing support.

As many of us have discussed, "2.2.5-971120" is probably quite adequate
for the purpose. If something affecting "screen colours" was entered
around that time or if a fix had been committed after that point,
you would, at least, have a good point to start the investigation.

Richard Wackerbarth





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