Mercurial and bzr have those sequential numbers. They really aren't the awful apocalyptic problem that git users seem to think they are. bzr tries harder to mak

Mercurial and bzr have those sequential numbers. They really aren't the awful apocalyptic problem that git users seem to think they are. bzr tries harder to make them sequential and meaningful, but even hg's more lax approach to revision numbers is still useful: they are still approximately semantic, much more than node hashes.