Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?

[Doran Moppert]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:01:08PM +0400, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:31:07 +0200 (CEST), Pau Aliagas wrote:
> > That's also policy. If we are changing anything it has to be to let the 
> > user decide. It's not that I'm against it, it's that I feel that the user 
> > shoul decide it.
> 
 [...]
>  bash-3.01a$ tla show-policy (version|branch)
>  branch-first
>    or 
>  version-first

what is the point of this? What would make a version different from a branch?

Either there's a difference and that's all tla needs to support, or there's
no difference and the concepts should be merged. Make branch synonymous 
with version and use a sort that handles [0-9.-]* strings properly and what
has been lost?