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		_asummers on May 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The largest Git repo We version each of our individual resources. so a /v1/user might have many /v3/post . Seems to work for us as a smaller engineering team.

jjawssd on May 30, 2017 [–]

A better approach would be to alias /v3/user to /v1/user until there is a breaking change needed in the v3 code tier.

_asummers on June 1, 2017 | [–]

On a rapidly developing API, that would be way too much churn on our front end. For an externally facing API, I completely agree.

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