On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> One reason that nobody really cares about this trick any more is that it has > become MUCH LESS IMPORTANT on modern version control systems, e.g., Subversion > or Git, where there is a single version number (or version hash) for the > entire project, not one per file. This is an idealistic argument that breaks down in many real-world situations. Some examples include build and release processes parts of which are done manually by copying files around, developers forgetting to check in a file or two, and (binary) patches/updates sent to individual customers one by one. The real world is, unfortunately, not entirely blissful. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | o...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
