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Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ... by kijin on Monday November 17, 2014 @08:15PM (#8621891)
Hashes would make it a lot easier to detect sneaky last-minute changes.
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Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ... by dllthomas on Monday November 17, 2014 @10:05PM (#8622167)
At the same time, though, you lose the thread if you miss any "X is the next version of Y" update. Probably HR-number-hash would be ideal.
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Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ... by mgkimsal on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @08:25AM (#8623738)
or maybe just 'version numbers'.

HR3361.4 HR3361.5 HR3361.6

etc

Easier for everyone to understand, not just geeks...

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Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ... by dllthomas on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:30PM (#8625791)
People get tempted to play shenanigans like reusing numbers.
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Re:The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to ... by mgkimsal on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:47PM (#8626238)
datetime?

HR3361.20141106142502

almost as bad as hash, but immediately parseable and understood if a version was before or after something else.

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