On Do April 12 2007, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
The date must still be in there. Some packages have used a format
like 20070412svn1234, which is acceptable although not strictly listed
in the naming guidelines as one of the possibilities. (Which is
something that probably should be in the guidelines.)
I have a question about the date, in the guidelines it is written:
| The date in reference is the date that the checkout was taken.
So when I take a snapshot of revision 123 of a svn repository with the current
revision 151 and the commit of revision 123 was a week ago, then the alphatag
has to be:
20070413svn123?
Imho it would make more sence to use the date of the commit of the revision.
Also with respect to git/hg, it would make the checkout better identifiable
when one would use:
20070413gitABCDEF
with ABCDEF beeing the last six (or any other number of) characters of the
sha1 hash of the revision.
Regards,
Till