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

[Walter Bright]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Not just what repository, but what clone of the repository! It's 
> explained in http://hginit.com/05.html. The number only makes sense for 
> the clone of the repository you're working on right now - basically you 
> can't tell that number to anyone, because it might mean something 
> entirely different for them.

A version number is fundamentally linear, and so will not work very well on any 
sort of revision graph that is not a line. As soon as you branch or fork, it 
breaks down.