Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Not just what repository, but what clone of the repository! It's explained in http://hginit.com/05.html. The number only makes sense for the clone of the repository you're working on right now - basically you can't tell that number to anyone, because it might mean something entirely different for them.
A version number is fundamentally linear, and so will not work very well on any sort of revision graph that is not a line. As soon as you branch or fork, it breaks down.
