On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 10:59:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > > > +* Git 1.6, released in August 2008. In retrospect, this release should likely > > + have bumped the major version. > > No need to reroll just for this alone, but back then, a non-zero > third component did not mean they are maintenance releases (e.g., > v1.5.3.3 was the third maintenance update for the v1.5.3 series) and > v1.6.0 _was_ a departure, a breaking change from the v1.5.x series. > > It is more recent tradition that we only use three numbers. I'd > strike the whole "In retrospect" comment if I were writing this. The reason why I included it is that I didn't want to create the impression that breaking releases may also happen when bumping the second version component. It did happen with v1.6.0, but in the future I think we'd want to always bump the first component on such releases, do we? Patrick
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