dotted decimal for the win!

[Martin Pool]

On 17 Oct 2006, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> The log below shows something very interesting that count-from-branch
> point gives, which the count-to-merge-point probably wouldn't have.. it
> shows revision 121.1.1 was committed against 121, and merged 120.2.3
> which was Alexanders win32 fixes, and this resulting branch (121.1) was
> then merged as a whole into 122. So this gives a visual feel to 'there
> were two branches here' - the extra lines that we've cut from bzr viz
> because they were to complex to display - without actually adding
> complexity to the simple visual take it in.
> 
> I'm *really* happy about this  :)

I agree, that is pretty useful, and is good evidence that numbering from
the origin not the merge point does pack in more useful data.


-- 
Martin