Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:26:48PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
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>>-#define IPW2100_VERSION "git-1.1.4"
>>+#define IPW2100_VERSION "git-1.2.2"
>>    
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>git-foo is a pretty stupid version number, please kill the git- prefix.
>  
>
Perhaps for you... 

For us this prefix has been very useful in isolating problems reported
by users.

The 'git' prefix means "this was based on the out-of-tree version foo"
which can then be quickly followed up with more directed questions to
the user.

James

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