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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:21:53 +0200
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> 
>> Besides, you need [constant] network access for this mapping.
> 
> I _think_ that Aaron was trying to say that
> 
> 	abentley@panoramicfeedback.com-20060927202832-9795d0528e311e31
> 
> is always constant, so you can use that.
> 
> Of course, nobody will ever do that, because in practice they're not 
> shown, the same way the "true" BK revision names were never shown and thus 
> never really used.

By the way, I wonder if accidentally identical revisions
(see example for accidental clean merge on revctrl.org)
would get the same revision id in bzr. In git they would.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland