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

[Bill Nottingham]

Petr Machata (pmachata at redhat.com) said: 
> 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.

Well, git<date> sorts sanely. git<sha1> does not. Comments in the spec
(or similar) might help with this.

Bill