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Re: Numeric Revision Names?

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BSBruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2008, 12:44 UTC
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marceloribeiro <marcelo@sonnay.com> writes:
[...]
> Is there any way to configure it to start a projects revisions on
> lets say, revision 0, and keep incrementing it after each commit?
No.
[...]

(There's no such numbering system that would work entirely satisfactorily in a distributed system. Some systems have numbering schemes that are perhaps easier to use (at least for some purposes) than the underlying hashes, but no such scheme is used in git.)

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