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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:46:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1?
> 
> Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me,
> "b" means "beta" :)

FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just 
using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common.

		Linus