While working on addons.mozilla.org I ran into an issue of git svn rebase continually asking me to merge a file, over and over.
I had a branch open for a bug. In that branch I wrote a library. While that bug was under review, I had to use that library in a new branch [...]
Versioning is quite difficult to deal with. Versions are nearly-numbers, but you can’t quite sort them using standard numerical algorithms.
While the following is true:
1.1 < 1.2
The following is also true:
1.2 < 1.18 < 1.20
The “.” is not a decimal point but a separator.
Mozilla uses a modestly complicated versioning system that involves stars, plusses, and [...]
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