Packagers: nightly builds?

[Gilles Moris]

On Mon January 26 2009 10:54:20 Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> > It is better to use the largest number of rev from a given changeset, otherwise
> > a backout can give a shortcut that will lead to non monotonic numbers. This is
> > why I used this convention in the nearest extension.
> 
> Could you draw a little picture explaining this? I'm not sure I
> understood.
> 

Suppose you have a linear history with A tagged as Tag

A(Tag)---B---C---D---E

The distance from A to E is 4 and you will annotate your version as Tag.4

Now imagine B is wrong and you want to backout it as B' and merge it back in F.

A(Tag)---B---C---D---E---F
          \             /
           B'----------/

Now the smallest distance is A-B-B'-F which is 3, which will give you Tag.3
This can give the impression that it is an earlier version. With the longest
distance, it gives you Tag.5.

May be by <number of descendants> you meant from the rev 0. But you will face
the same kind of problem at the tree level. Or I did not understood what you
meant by <number of descendants> ?

Regards.
Gilles.