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

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:33 -0800, Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > Yea, and that's pretty much the original thing I was saying: It's nice that
> > Hg seems to have it, but Git doesn't appear to be particularly interested in
> > it.
> 
> I think it's very handy for all the reasons you said.  I don't think
> I've every had to use a big hex string when dealing with mercurial.
> Maybe once or twice max.  Most of the stuff you do with repo history
> as an individual developer is all about the local copy of the tree on
> your system.  Globally unique identifiers aren't needed for that.  It
> looks like Bzr does something similar.  Not sure why Git hasn't gotten
> this particular nicety.

Bazaar does indeed have revision numbers per branch.  Note that branch
and repository is a different concept in Bazaar, unlike Git and
Mercurial where they are fundamentally the same.

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