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...s an authoritative upstream > > Would you mind expanding on this? What problem specifically is being solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is whatever URL the BDFL says it is. Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says 'please test r1245145 - should be fixed' you can easily check whether you are run...

...ve upstream >> >> Would you mind expanding on this? What problem specifically is being solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is whatever URL the BDFL says it is. > > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says 'please test r1245145 - should be fixed' you can easily check whether you are run...

...> Would you mind expanding on this? What problem specifically is being > solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is > whatever URL the BDFL says it is. > > > > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see > that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard > to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. > This makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone > says 'please test r1245145 - should be fixed' you can easily check whet...

...ly is being >>> >> solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is >>> >> whatever URL the BDFL says it is. >>> > >>> > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see >>> > that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard >>> > to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This >>> > makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says >>> > 'please test r1245145 - should...

>> clock skew (which is easy to get in a VM) can confuse Ninja in a way >> that doesn't give helpful errors. > >This is a significant issue. I would not want to transition to >cmake+ninja before this is fixed. Do you mean in the same way that clock skew would affect Make? Or just that Ninja doesn't provide that nice "clock skew detected" message that Make

David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes: > clock skew (which is easy to get in a VM) can confuse Ninja in a way > that doesn't give helpful errors. This is a significant issue. I would not want to transition to cmake+ninja before this is fixed. -David

...t problem specifically is being >> >> solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is >> >> whatever URL the BDFL says it is. >> > >> > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see >> > that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard >> > to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This >> > makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says >> > 'please test r1245145 - should be fixed'...

...t problem specifically is being >> >> solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is >> >> whatever URL the BDFL says it is. >> > >> > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see >> > that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard >> > to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This >> > makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says >> > 'please test r1245145 - should be fixed'...

...; solved? Linus and Guido both use DVCS's and the authoritative upstream is >>>>> >> whatever URL the BDFL says it is. >>>>> > >>>>> > Monotonic version numbers are the biggest advantage. It is easy to see >>>>> > that r1234432 contains the bug fix introduced in r1234430. It is very hard >>>>> > to see if version 23bef194ac contains the bug fix added in 23bef19412. This >>>>> > makes interaction with bugzilla and so on much easier. If someone says >>>>> > 'please...