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      7899999999998765

      Even if a developer would make a commit every second, it would take 250 million years to reach version 0.0.7899999999998765

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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

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          1.21 to 1.211

          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!”

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          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

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        I have seen people just add '9’s to it, so to not upgrade the minor, so 2.6.997 gets 2.6.9997 and so on

        Some people cannot math.