I have created a POC program to exercise the JCR version handling with ModeShape on both 4.0.0.Alph4 and 3.8.0.Final. The version number is increased from 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 1.3, 1.4, and etc. Then I restored the version 1.2 and made changes to it. But I noticed that the new version number is 1.3.0 now. Should the new version number be 1.2.0 (since it is based on the original 1.2) or am I missing something from the program? Thanks!
I would have expected 1.2.1, so it looks like it might be a bug. Please report the issue in the project's bug tracker. ModeShape is an open source project, we'll likely look at the issue much more quickly if you provide a simple test case.
But what we really love is a pull-request that adds to a test class one or more test methods that replicates the problem. We can get that pull-request, run the tests (which would fail), and then fix the problem. This really saves us a lot of time, and it us know that we're fixing the exact problem you see. And you'll know that the fix will be included in the next release.