[plt-scheme] Change info/rollback question?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 17 11:25:05 EDT 2006

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:01 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:47:35AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 
> > Minor version bumps happen mostly when there are change in the core.
> > They are therefore as arbitrary as revision numbers, and you can simply
> > use subversion with either that, or with a date.
> 
> In principle, Eli, you're exactly right.  In practice, however, it is not
> at all convenient to map from a minor version number to either a date or an
> SVN revision number.  While the information does exist, it's primarily in
> the archives of this mailing list, which can be difficult to search.

In practice, the commit message for a new minor version is always the
version number, so the following works:

[samth at hermes:~/sw/plt] svn log | grep -3 ^352.1$
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r3861 | mflatt | 2006-07-28 09:00:14 -0400 (Fri, 28 Jul 2006) | 1 line

352.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------

sam th



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