Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 28 novembre 2007 21:33, Petr Machata a écrit :
> Steve Grubb wrote:
>> kdepim-enterprise-svn20070926.tar.bz2
>
> As a side note, I always wondered why to use date in the release tag
> of
> package, whose sources come from non-cvs versioning system.  For svn,
> in
> my opinion, it would make more sense to use the tree revision number;
> for git, similarly, sha1 id of the tree.

For git that would not be a number but for svn any shuffling upstream
does in its VCS can result in revision number changes, so relying on
them to identify sources is a big no-go.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot