D Programming Language source (dmd, phobos,etc.) has moved to github

[David Nadlinger]

On 1/24/11 10:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Does Git really not have real revision/changeset numbers?
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>>[…]
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> Not that I've actually used DVCSes much yet, but my understanding is that
> the same can be set of Hg and yet Hg handles revision/changeset numbers just
> fine. The nice things (plural) about those is that they're both readable and
> comparable.

Hg has no »real revision/changeset numbers« either – there is a 
more-or-less-monotonic number assigned to the various changesets, but 
it's only valid for a single, *local* checkout, using them e.g. in a NG 
post would be a very wrong thing to do 
(http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RevisionNumber).

Git supports a relative notation as well, which is what I personally 
want to use most of the time anyway (e.g. HEAD^, master~4, something@{"1 
year ago"}, …). You don't have to specify the full SHA-1 hash either, as 
long as it is still unambiguous – for example, you could just refer to 
the 2.051 version mentioned above as »1374« to save typing.

David