On 07/27/2012 11:29 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
That's hyperbolic. A date tells you something meaningful even if it is specifying something that turns out to be a range of valid entries. I might not know if 20120106 is more recent code than 20110610 but I know that it isn't older code, for instance.
No, you don't. All you know is that "20120106" is the date the checkout was made. The checkout could be code from 2 years ago, where as the checkout that was done on 20110610 was of code that was at the time brand new (and then later determined to be too full of errors to continue using).
The date things were checked out is pretty meaningless. More context is needed, even on SCMs without a canonical revision identifier. You'd want to know what branch or tag the checkout was from. That kind of detail goes in the changelog, not shoved into the release string.
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