From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:55:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Message-ID: <4AC1691D.5050600@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <h9nlhj$heq$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 09/27/2009 02:24 PM, Anteru wrote:
> What's
> the rationale behind this decision for git, and is it possible to
> emulate Mercurial's behavior somehow?

While not exactly the same thing, 'git describe' is very helpful in 
comparing versions (if you know that one is an ancestor of the other).

Paolo