Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2014, #04; Wed, 12)

Andrew Eikum [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:59:41PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

As a workaround to make life easier for third-party tools, the
upcoming major release will be called "Git 1.9.0" (not "Git 1.9").
The first maintenance release for it will be "Git 1.9.1", and the
major release after "Git 1.9.0" will either be "Git 2.0.0" or "Git
1.10.0".

Apologies if this ground has been tread before, but has there been a
version numbering discussion? A quick google didn't seem to turn
anything up.

This seems to be an opportune time to drop the useless first digit.
Explicitly, the major release numbers would be: 1.8, 1.9, then 2.0,
3.0, 4.0, etc, with the 2nd digit would take the meaning of the
current 3rd digit and so on.

Considered, and discarded.

cf. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/241498

When you see a version number vX.Y.0 next time, think of it as just
play vX.Y without the third digit, and you will be fine.  People's
script cannot learn the "think of it as ..." part overnight, and
that is why we have the .0 there.