Re: [PYRITE] Status update and call for information.

> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You do realize that no matter how you define your sequential
> > numbers, they can't be both globally consistent and unique? (That
> > is, either different repositories will assign different numbers to
> > the same commit, or the same number could be assigned to more than
> > one commit.)
>
> Of course, no one makes the claim that rev numbers are unique or
> even that a commit has the same revision number between branches in
> the same repository. Hg states that flat out and I believe bzr says
> the same, although I am pretty sure they determine their numbers
> some other way. I make no such claim. What I do claim is that for a
> given branch, a commit should always have the same revision number.
> Sure, If you merge a commit from another branch, it's revnum might
> change, but that is ok. As long as, assuming you have not re-written
> master, 10:master will always point to the same commit I think I am
> providing something worth while. Also, AFAIK the order of parentage
> is part of the hash that makes a commit ID, so if my master is a
> clone of your master, it should share revision numbers.