VCS comparison table
Martin Pool
mbp at sourcefrog.net
Thu Oct 19 06:56:35 BST 2006
On 18 Oct 2006, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> 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
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