Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:18:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> You brought this topic up a few months ago, and passed it off as
> something we would discuss at the kernel summit.  But that never
> happened, so I figured I'd bring it up again here.
> 
> So, as someone who constantly is dealing with kernel version numbers all
> the time with the -stable trees, our current numbering scheme is a pain
> a times.  How about this proposal instead?

> Any thoughts?
> 
> Let the bike-shedding begin!

What about just using the git SHA1?

Advantages:
  - We're all getting older. Training our memory to remember SHA1 IDs is
    actually good for us!
  - Perhaps Google will finally start tracking git commits, so I can
    feed them a git commit ID mentioned in a random email and find the
    actual commit, without having to know to which repository it
    belongs?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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