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What I miss most from Subversion is the revision number. Every commit in the repository ordered by one universal simple number that makes all kinds of scripting
by zmmmmm 13y ago
What I miss most from Subversion is the revision number. Every commit in the repository ordered by one universal simple number that makes all kinds of scripting and automation easy. Being able quickly ask a colleague when debugging "what revision are you using" and get back a simple identifier instead of an opaque hash that tells me nothing.
Of course, this feature exactly is not possible in a DVCS (it is almost the whole point of a DVCS). I certainly appreciate other features of the DVCS and would probably take them on balance. But do still miss the simplicity of it.
- cheez 13y agoIt's pretty easy to have a revision number and Mercurial does it the right way: you have a canonical repo and that repo has a local revision number which maps to a particular commit. It's impossible to have global revision numbers for hopefully obvious reasons.
- nnethercote 13y agoIndeed, Mercurial does do this very nicely. Even if the local revision number isn't entirely trustworthy (i.e. can't be compared between different repo clones) it sure is nice to have a decent idea how old a revision is... "revision 1000, oh that's ancient; revision 50000, oh that is very new".