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[Aaron Bentley]

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James Henstridge wrote:
> Why do you continue to repeat this argument?  No one is claiming that
> a revision number by itself, as Bazaar uses them, is a global
> identifier.  In fact, we keep on saying that they only have meaning in
> the context of a branch.

And, unlike git, Bazaar branches are all independent entities[1], and
they each have a URL.

So:

http://code.aaronbentley.com/bzrrepo/bzr.ab 1695

is a name for

abentley at panoramicfeedback.com-20060927202832-9795d0528e311e31

And it does not depend on any other branch, especially not bzr.dev

Since:
1. anyone with write access to the urls can create them
2. anyone with read access to the urls can read them
3. the maintainers of the mainline have no control over them
   (except as provided by 1)

these identifiers are not centralized.

Aaron

[1] The fact that they may share storage is not important to the model.
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