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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:05:50 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: iproute2 DDMMYY versioning - why?

Stephen,

Taking into account that iproute releases are aligned with the kernel
ones -- is there any real reason for the confusing DDMMYY double
versioning?

I see that even the git tags go after the kernel releases..

Or.

# git remote -v
origin  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git (fetch)
origin  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git (push)

$ git log -p include/SNAPSHOT.h

commit 1bfa3b3f66ef48bdabe0eb2a7c14e69f481dfa25 (tag: v5.7.0)
Author: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date:   Tue Jun 2 20:35:00 2020 -0700

    v5.7.0

diff --git a/include/SNAPSHOT.h b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
index 0d10a9c2..0d211784 100644
--- a/include/SNAPSHOT.h
+++ b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "200330";
+static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "200602";

commit 29981db0e051cd4c53920c89dddcf3d883343a0f (tag: v5.6.0)
Author: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 30 08:06:08 2020 -0700

    v5.6.0

diff --git a/include/SNAPSHOT.h b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
index c0fa1bb4..0d10a9c2 100644
--- a/include/SNAPSHOT.h
+++ b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "200127";
+static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "200330";

commit d4df55404aec707bd55c9264c666ddb1bb05d7f1 (tag: v5.5.0)
Author: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 05:53:09 2020 -0800

    v5.5.0

diff --git a/include/SNAPSHOT.h b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
index b98ad502..c0fa1bb4 100644
--- a/include/SNAPSHOT.h
+++ b/include/SNAPSHOT.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "191125";
+static const char SNAPSHOT[] = "200127";

etc