From: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:46:38 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFHsHg/R9la3IwEv@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzgzsuibf.fsf@gitster.g>
On 2021-02-25 10:13:24-0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> >
> > Usually we can only use `format-patch -v<n>` to generate integral
> > version numbers patches, but if we can provide `format-patch` with
> > non-integer versions numbers of patches, this may help us to send patches
> > such as "v1.1" versions sometimes.
>
> I am not in principle opposed to support a fractional version number
> that comes after an integral one, which allows users to signal that
> it is a minor correction that does not deserve a full version bump.
I'm late into the party, but this rational sounds greate to me.
> If we were to do this, I would probably suggest a preliminary patch
> that refactors the hardcoded "reroll_count - 1" out of diff_title()
> so that the helper takes two "reroll count strings", i.e. reroll
> count for this round, and the previous round, as two separate
> parameters. Teach the caller to pass "reroll_count - 1" for the new
> parameter in this preliminary step.
However, if it's only a minor correction to the major version,
I _think_ it makes better sense to compare with the major version
instead of comparing with another minor version.
When a reviewer reviews v3.5, they can just compare to v3.
In a hypothetical world, when another reviewer jump in and a major
change required, v4 reroll also compare with v3.
In other words, we will have something likes:
- v3 vs v2
- v3.1 vs v3
- v3.2 vs v3
....
- v4 vs v3
The good side of this approach is: the logic to choose previous
version is simple.
The downside of this approach is: reviewers need to re-read the
changes in v3.1 v3.2, etc... However, we can reasonably expect those
changes are small enough, they're minor changes after all.
And they will need to re-read all the change if the major verison was
increased.
--
Danh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-25 16:15 [PATCH] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-02-25 17:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-02-27 7:00 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-02-25 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-27 7:30 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-17 11:46 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh [this message]
2021-03-17 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-01 8:40 ` [PATCH v2] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-03 3:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-03 9:02 ` Denton Liu
2021-03-04 0:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04 2:08 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-04 3:27 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-04 8:41 ` Denton Liu
2021-03-04 12:12 ` [PATCH v3] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-04 12:49 ` Denton Liu
2021-03-05 4:56 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-05 7:10 ` [PATCH v4] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-15 23:41 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-16 5:48 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-16 6:15 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-17 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-16 8:25 ` [PATCH v5] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-16 23:36 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-17 2:05 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-18 6:00 ` [PATCH v6] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-19 6:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-19 7:25 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 11:21 ` [PATCH v7] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-19 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 3:08 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-19 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-20 3:04 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-20 14:56 ` [PATCH v8] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-20 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 2:45 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-21 4:05 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-21 5:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-21 5:54 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-24 8:46 ` Denton Liu
2021-03-21 7:22 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-21 9:00 ` [PATCH v9] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-23 5:31 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-23 6:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-23 8:53 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 9:16 ` ZheNing Hu
2021-03-23 11:12 ` [PATCH v10] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-03-24 3:58 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-24 4:43 ` ZheNing Hu
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