From: Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:44:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Message-ID: <ee2a733e0909291144g4b99ab7ay9e63bfac935013aa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m33a66br69.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 2009-09-28, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> [..snip..]
>  Besides with nonlinear history with
>  revision numbers such as 12678 and 12687 you know that 12678 is older
>  than 12687 if and only if 12678 and 12687 are on the same line of
>  development.
>

The statement above is incorrect!! In a Mercurial repo local revision
numbers are strictly ordered in commit time. 12678 < 12687 means that
12678 was committed prior to 12687. But these two commits could belong
to two completely unrelated lines of development.

--Leo--