From: Jelmer Vernooij Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:26:41 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <1161628001.27312.8.camel@charis.lan.vernstok.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610232021.55625.jnareb@gmail.com> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 20:21 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> > >> Besides, you need [constant] network access for this mapping. > > > > I _think_ that Aaron was trying to say that > > > > abentley@panoramicfeedback.com-20060927202832-9795d0528e311e31 > > > > is always constant, so you can use that. > > > > Of course, nobody will ever do that, because in practice they're not > > shown, the same way the "true" BK revision names were never shown and thus > > never really used. > > By the way, I wonder if accidentally identical revisions > (see example for accidental clean merge on revctrl.org) > would get the same revision id in bzr. In git they would. They won't. The revision id is made up of the committers email address, a timestamp and a bunch of random data. It wouldn't be hard to switch using checksums as revids instead, but I don't think there are any plans in that direction. Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij - http://samba.org/~jelmer/