On 25/01/11 22:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I don't understand why you think I'm claiming anything of the sort. I never said anything like that. I keep saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over....."changeset number **PLUS WHICH REPOSITORY (and maybe branch, depending how the given system chooses to work)**"
Person A has a repository with one branch, 'default' and has made two commits. The current revision number is 1. Person B clones the repository and creates a branch, 'ver2', and makes two commits. The revision number in his repository is now 3, it is still 1 in person A's. Person A makes a commit, his revision 2. B switches back to the 'default' branch, and makes another commit. His revision 4. A pulls from the default branch, now B's revision 4 == A's revision 3.
It's very easy for the revision numbers to get out of sync like this. Now if person B mentioned revision 2, A will not see the same commit as B when looking at it, and has no way of specifying to look in B's repository - A doesn't have access to B's 'ver2' branch until he pulls it (or B pushes it). There are any number of other cirumstances which could easily cause this in a DVCS, and this is without reordering commits etc.
This said, I still like them, and they are really useful for small projects :)
-- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
