On Tuesday 24 of March 2009 22:15:59 Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > Kamil Dudka wrote: > >> From d889021cebb7bf798d1b7bf24149c354627e9553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >> From: Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> > >> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:20:12 +0100 > >> Subject: [PATCH] filevercmp: extension for simple and numbered backups > > > > Hi Kamil, > > > > Thanks again. > > Complete patch below. > > I'm merging this incremental, to retain (per Bruno's suggestion) > > the two test cases you removed. > > I'll add the ChangeLog entry, of course. > > Pushed. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1721cf06d9
Thanks! > Just after doing that I went to add a slightly different test of > ls -v in coreutils, but was surprised by this: > > $ printf '%s\n' a a~ a.~1~ a.0 |src/sort -V > a~ > a > a.~1~ > a.0 This is the way how Debian's verrevcmp works. You get the same result while using the verrevcmp as sort predicate. Kamil