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As stated by the documentation, those numbers are purely a convenience feature for when you don't want to give the actual revision hash to a command. The latter
by ygra 13y ago
As stated by the documentation, those numbers are purely a convenience feature for when you don't want to give the actual revision hash to a command. The latter is what you have to do in git anyway.
- twic 13y agoExactly. Git has one way to refer to commits: hashes. Mercurial has two: hashes and revision numbers. If you don't like revision numbers, ignore them, and you're in exactly the same position as with Git.