On 09/30/2016 03:33 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 10.09.2016 um 14:47 schrieb William F Pokorny:
>
>>>> Original github checks clean, but fail after manually bumping up the
>>>> version numbers in the branch. Unsure why.
>>>
>>> It conflicts with changes made to the master branch after you branched
>>> off (the version numbers, evidently).
>>>
>>> I must confess that version number handling is something that seriously
>>> bothers me, with a good solution still waiting to be found.
>
> FYI, I've just ditched the running version number from the master
> branch, as it turns out to really come crashing down with any reasonable
> number of open pull requests around. Once you strip any trailing numbers
> after the "alpha" from your pending pull requests, things should run a
> good deal more smoothly from now on. (The pre-commit hook should be fine
> with this new mode of operation, though it becomes less relevant anyway.)
>
> I've instead added an advice to README.md to not build from the master
> branch, but from tagged version only. Tagged versions will continue to
> have trailing numbers after the "alpha" so that they can be uniquely
> identified for the sake of providing support, but they will be managed
> in a dedicated branch, to be updated from time to time from the master
> branch.
>
OK. Thanks. I'll update my remaining pull requests to this new approach. 


Bill P.

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