From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Pool Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:56:35 +1000 Message-ID: <20061019055626.GK18052@sourcefrog.net> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45357411.20500@utoronto.ca> <200610180246.18758.jnareb@gmail.com> <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 19 07:56:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaQtd-00021H-Jj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:56:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161115AbWJSF4q (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:56:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161175AbWJSF4q (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:56:46 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:10120 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161115AbWJSF4p (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:56:45 -0400 Received: from hope.sourcefrog.net (ppp112-44.static.internode.on.net [150.101.112.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7821867B99; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:56:41 +1000 (EST) Received: by hope.sourcefrog.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A4225C6B6; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:56:35 +1000 (EST) To: Carl Worth Mail-Followup-To: Carl Worth , Aaron Bentley , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 18 Oct 2006, Carl Worth wrote: > I understand that bzr also has unique identifiers, but it sounds like > the tools try to hide them, and people aren't in the habit of using > them for things like this. Do bzr developers put revision numbers in > their bug trackers? Is there a guarantee they will always be valid? There is a mix of - Just giving the overall tarball version number, which is most meaningful to users (and not related to bzr versions) - Giving a mainline revision number, which will never revert because we never pull (fast-forward) that branch. That has the substantial (imo) benefit that you can immediately compare these numbers by eye, and they are easy to quote. - Giving a unique id, which is obviously most definitive and appropriate if you're talking about something which is not on the mainline or a well known branch. The launchpad.net bug tracker links branches to bugs and does this through revision ids. -- Martin