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I don't understand why, when a major software package gets even the slightest version increment, it has to top HN. Git's number is bigger? Big deal. If there wa
by corndoge 13y ago
I don't understand why, when a major software package gets even the slightest version increment, it has to top HN. Git's number is bigger? Big deal.
If there was a monumental change to Git contained in those release notes, then maybe. But a few changes involving whitespace and colons are hardly 'deeply interesting'.
- sho_hn 13y agoExcept you can't know that the changes are minor without looking at the release notes. Between that and the fact that even minor changes multiply in importance across the large number of git users, it's apparently interesting enough.
- Pacabel 13y agoVersion numbers are supposed to indicate information like that, at a high level. Under a sensible version numbering scheme, an x.0 release will have important changes, while an x.9 release very likely shouldn't.
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- jbnicolai 13y agoNot really, an increment to the major version number simply indicates non backwards-compatible API changes. See: http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/
- username223 13y agoIt's the usual minor version release spam. Not even worth figuring out whether it's blog-spam, karma whoring, or (unlikely) genuine news.