On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:33 -0800, Bill Baxter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: [ . . . ] > > Yea, and that's pretty much the original thing I was saying: It's nice that > > Hg seems to have it, but Git doesn't appear to be particularly interested in > > it. > > I think it's very handy for all the reasons you said. I don't think > I've every had to use a big hex string when dealing with mercurial. > Maybe once or twice max. Most of the stuff you do with repo history > as an individual developer is all about the local copy of the tree on > your system. Globally unique identifiers aren't needed for that. It > looks like Bzr does something similar. Not sure why Git hasn't gotten > this particular nicety.
Bazaar does indeed have revision numbers per branch. Note that branch and repository is a different concept in Bazaar, unlike Git and Mercurial where they are fundamentally the same. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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