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

I like Mercurial a little less every day. *Always* post the log messages or commit ID, *never* the r numbers. The r numbers are *not stable* across repositories, and just confuse the readers. You can get the commit IDs with "hg log" or "hg id". Somebody wrote to me: This is what I get, fingering Aidan, not me, amusingly enough. (Amusing, because this isn't real evidence that Aidan had anything to do with it. I have no idea what commits the OP's revisions 4532:4534 might refer to.) $ hg log -r 4532:4534 changeset: 4532:16906fefc8df branch: bytecomp-coding-system-2008-10-29 user: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; date: Sun Dec 21 17:23:06 2008 +0000 summary: Return a list copy in #'built-in-face-specifiers, pre-empting modification. changeset: 4533:4a7c4ccac2fe parent: 4527:8418d1ad4944 parent: 4532:16906fefc8df user: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; date: Mon Dec 22 12:05:47 2008 +0000 summary: Merge. changeset: 4534:f32c7f843961 user: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; date: Mon Dec 22 12:09:08 2008 +0000 summary: #'built-in-face-specifiers; document that we're returning a copy. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta