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that's with the assumption that the smallest increment was used every time
I sometimes increment things by adding the next decimal place
note: I am not a developer, just a dude making tools at work. but I somehow always end up incrementing something now and then from 1.21 to 1.211 because I wanted to avoid the "1.21 new actually newest" situation and bumping to 1.22 didn't make sense. it's like temporary versioning for me, WIP files
Bothers me that you wouldn't go for 1.21.1 but you got the freedom to be WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG^[just teasing with this part of my reply :)] if you want.
I do that too sometimes lol but I'm just not a fan
if it were actual releases, yeah totally. but it's just temporary files
So +190 increment is totally ok for you, but +1 sometimes "didn’t make sense". IT DOESN"T MAKE ANY SENSE! Oh, and you can use letters. 1.21 -> 1.21a looks MUCH more explanatory for your purposes than "+1 is too harsh increase, so I'll increase on 190!"
so I actually use various different systems depending on my mood that day.
maybe I add a dash, maybe I use another decimal, maybe I use alpha characters.
none of it matters because they're wiped out a few hours later
Sub version tags make sense but for the the love of pie if you're going to use a number at least separate it from the others, like
1.21-1= 0.21
;-)
Roffffl you're pure evil