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It'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
by cheez 13y ago
It'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".