On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:59:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > As a workaround to make life easier for third-party tools, the > upcoming major release will be called "Git 1.9.0" (not "Git 1.9"). > The first maintenance release for it will be "Git 1.9.1", and the > major release after "Git 1.9.0" will either be "Git 2.0.0" or "Git > 1.10.0". > Apologies if this ground has been tread before, but has there been a version numbering discussion? A quick google didn't seem to turn anything up. This seems to be an opportune time to drop the useless first digit. Explicitly, the major release numbers would be: 1.8, 1.9, then 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc, with the 2nd digit would take the meaning of the current 3rd digit and so on. Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html