Re: Mercurial "r####" numbers are not stable, use commit ids

on 01/12/2009 07:50 AM Stephen J. Turnbull said the following: Stephen's comment reminds me of a *HUGE* (in my mind) benefit of TeamWare, the version control system of SunPro's SPARCworks: all the databases were text files. So (a) you could figure out merely by looking what TeamWare was doing, and (b) if you made a misteak, you could compound your, er, you could fix your mistake by simply editing a text file. I have no idea if this applies to git or to any other version control system in common use, but if I were to design one, this would be a hard requirement. One could say that (X)Emacs embodies this approach (more or less) because most of (X)Emacs's functionality is in elisp files, which, of course, are just text. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta