Inspired by Mercurial, we built such functionality for GIT backend in RhodeCode. So the numeric identifiers are used now for all 3 backends we support. Kallithe

Inspired by Mercurial, we built such functionality for GIT backend in RhodeCode. So the numeric identifiers are used now for all 3 backends we support. Kallithea has it also implemented for GIT. I personally never like the meaningless hashes. Those numbers act as good identifier of project size and progress. It quickly shows what kind of ranges we're taking when doing a compare, or simply looking at files and seeing those numbers. It gives a lot of context. Just look how much more useful information a compare shows r1808:39334bf35fdf...r1819:3e8df3a82397 vs 39334bf35fdf...3e8df3a82397