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

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Jan 26 12:46:44 PST 2011


"Kagamin" <spam at here.lot> wrote in message 
news:ihp46m$b3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> official public repo: r184
>> official public repo: r185
>> ...etc.
>>
>> Versus:
>>
>> 9f4e5ac4f0a3
>> 13cf8da225ce
>> ...etc.
>>
>> I don't know about other people, but I find the former to be far more
>> readable, far more descriptive, and actually possible to reason about. 
>> Sure,
>> the latter can be copy-pasted and it still refers to the same changeset, 
>> but
>> other then that it's meaningless gibberish.
>
> LOL, this meaningless gibberish is usually called a unique identifier.

I don't care what it's called. *Both* of the above examples are obviously 
unique. Repo name + revision number *does* uniquey identify one and only one 
changeset. Are you deliberately missing that point?




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