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

[Martin Marques]

Bill Nottingham escribió:
> 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.

git<date> from where? Remember that git is distributed and unless you 
have a centralized copy git<date> can have more then one copy.

IMHO, I've seen many cvs<date>, svn<date>, etc. that it'a when there 
isn't a real version numbering (or patches come from svn, cvs, hg, git, 
instead of new tarballs).