Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:25:57 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: hetzels@aol.com (Scot W. Hetzel) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: CVSup release identity Message-ID: <199710082225.PAA09436@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <01bcd3f4$a0e6ea20$LocalHost@hetzels> from "Scot W. Hetzel" at "Oct 8, 97 09:15:28 am"
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> From: Chad R. Larson <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> > >I'll re-suggest an alpha-numeric counter instead of date/time, both for > >economy (fewer characters) and to avoid debate about time zones and > >daylight savings. But I'd add a character that denotes which CVS tag > > I'm against an alpha-numeric counter, as a 2 digit counter only > produces 1296 combinations. If you look at the number of CTM updates > for CURRENT, they are in the 3000, thus we'll have exhausted the > combination long before we start. I yield on the format of the counter. It's more important to get =something= done than to chatter about it. But final statement: When I first proposed it, the two digit counter would use [A-Z][a-z][0-9] characters, for which there are over 6700 combinations. > > Scot > -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254
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