[Bioc-devel] Please bump version number when committing changes

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephanie M. Gogarten" <sdmorris at u.washington.edu>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 4:27:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please bump version number when committing changes
> 
> I am guilty of doing this today, but I have (I think) a good reason.
> I'm making a bunch of changes that are all related to each other, but
> are being implemented and tested in stages.  I'd like to use svn to
> commit when I've made a set of changes that works, so I can roll back
> if
> I break something in the next step, but I'd like the users to see
> them
> all at once as a single version update.  Perhaps others are doing
> something similar?
> 

I understand the motivation but this still results in an ambiguous state if two different people check out your package from svn at different times today (before and after your changes). 

Version numbers are cheap, so if version 1.2.3 exists for a day before version 1.2.4 (which contains all the changes you want to push to your users) then that's ok, IMO.

Including a version bump doesn't impact whether or not you can rollback a commit with svn.

Dan



> Stephanie
> 
> On 9/4/14, 12:04 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Looking through our svn logs, I see that there are many commits
> > that are not accompanied by version bumps.
> > All svn commits (or, if you are using the git-svn bridge, every
> > group of commits included in a push) should include a version bump
> > (that is, incrementing the "z" segment of the x.y.z version
> > number). This practice is documented at
> > http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/version-numbering/ .
> >
> > Failure to bump the version has two consequences:
> >
> > 1) Your changes will not propagate to our package repository or web
> > site, so users installing your package via biocLite() will not
> > receive the latest changes unless you bump the version.
> >
> > 2) Users *can* always get the current files of your package using
> > Subversion, but if you've made changes without bumping the version
> > number, it can be difficult to troubleshoot problems. If two
> > people are looking at what appears to be the same version of a
> > package, but it's behaving differently, it can be really
> > frustrating to realize that the packages actually differ (but not
> > by version number).
> >
> > So if you're not already, please get in the habit of bumping the
> > version number with each set of changes you commit.
> >
> > Let us know on bioc-devel if you have any questions about this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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