Re: `No strings in PORTVERSION' (non-)limitation

2012-05-15 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Chris Rees (utis...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thanks for following this up; since we discussed this I've been thinking > though- why put the git bit in anyway? Does it have anything special > apart from a date marker, and if not, won't a date suffice? Date doesn't itself indicate that this is a VCS

Re: `No strings in PORTVERSION' (non-)limitation

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Rees
On 15 May 2012 16:09, "Dmitry Marakasov" wrote: > > Hi! > > There are software versions like, say, 1.1.git20120515, 1.1.beta2, 1.1.rc1 Thanks for following this up; since we discussed this I've been thinking though- why put the git bit in anyway? Does it have anything special apart from a date