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

[Bill Baxter]

Mercurial gives every revision two numbers:

"""
changeset: This field has the format of a number, followed by a colon,
followed by a hexadecimal (or hex) string. These are identifiers for
the changeset. The hex string is a unique identifier: the same hex
string will always refer to the same changeset in every copy of this
repository. The number is shorter and easier to type than the hex
string, but it isn't unique: the same number in two different clones
of a repository may identify different changesets.
"""
example--
changeset:   0:0a04b987be5a

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/a-tour-of-mercurial-the-basics.html --
see section: "A Tour Through History"

Is that the kind of thing you're wanting?

--bb

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.974.1296080574.4748.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
> > On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 13:54:04 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote in message
> >> news:op.vpxphnlmtuzx1w at cybershadow.mshome.net...
> >>
> >> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:46:44 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> >> >> Are you deliberately missing that point?
> >> >
> >> > I think everyone's just annoyed how you're fiercely defending an idea
> >> > that has a single advantage (terseness - I consider hashes unique in
> >> > practice), but a whole slew of disadvantages,
> >>
> >> Terseness is not at all the only advantage. As I've said before, you can
> >> reason about them, compare them, and get a general idea of "where" they
> >> are
> >> in the history. I don't think merging or "changing the past" conflict
> >> with
> >> that. And I'm really not seeing any non-trivial disadvantages.
> >>
> >> > and then criticizing Git & co. for  being "horrid" because they don't
> >> > use
> >> > your idea.
> >>
> >> What? Are you actually trying to claim that defending/promoting one's own
> >> idea when another idea exists is a *bad* thing? Seriously?
> >>
> >> If we're going to go that absurd route, I can just make up the claim
> >> people
> >> are ganging up on me for having an idea that just happens to be different
> >> from Git's world-view. If Git does something one way then that *must* be
> >> the best way, right? Anything else is obviously just heresy, right? Bring
> >> on the stakes and torches, we're going to Salem!!
> >
> > LOL. I think that part of what it comes down to is that you're making a
> > big deal
> > out of what other people don't consider to be a big deal at all.
>
> Heh, fair enough :)
>
> > Personally, I
> > don't care much about the revision number. Having incrementally increasing
> > ones
> > might be nice, but if you don't have them, oh well. Obviously, you feel
> > much
> > more strongly about it.
> >
>
> I tend to be really bothered by "steps backwards" that I don't see as being
> necessary. Seems to be a common theme with me.
>
>
>