Re: Mercurial "r####" numbers are not stable, use commit ids
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. (Hint, don't use "git log"
and count logs to find out what N is, use "git show-branch".)
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