Re: Mercurial "r####" numbers are not stable, use commit ids
Michael Sperber writes:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Michael Sperber writes:
>
> > The revision number is just a local shorthand for revision id, which is
> > a hash similar to git, and it's globally unique. I agree it can be
> > confusing if used to communicate with others, but they're also handy for
> > local operation.
>
> No more handy than git's HEAD~N notation.
And no more confusing when used across repositories, right? :-)
Even more confusing, I think, but git's notation is much less likely
to be (mis)used in that way.
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