[LEDE-DEV] LEDE version numbers?

[James Feeney]

On 11/06/2017 09:01 AM, David Lang wrote:
> These version numbers are used between releases, the part after the - is enough of the git commit id (it's hash) for you to identify it. The r#  gives you an idea if it's newer or older than another one (since git hashes don't give you that info)
 
Thanks for that David!  How are the r#'s known?  Are they simply incremented with every git commit?  And they would apply to only one particular branch?  I see two "heads", "master" and "lede-17.01".  Do the r#'s apply to only one of those?  Or, are "master" and "lede-17.01" guaranteed to not be parallel branches?