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Numerical version numbers in Mercurial are a good thing until they start to differ in different repository copies, after which you have to educate everyone to r
by sqrt17 10y ago
Numerical version numbers in Mercurial are a good thing until they start to differ in different repository copies, after which you have to educate everyone to refer to versions by their hash instead of the numeric version
- rbehrends 10y ago1. You can use the Bzr approach instead, which has universally valid revision numbers. 2. Even local revision numbering has useful applications, such as annotate/blame, where numbers (unlike hashes) follow a chronological ordering. It is still better than not having them at all.