loggerhead: alternative web front-end

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:09:25PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> 
> >One tactic I tried at first was to SHA-1 the revid before displaying 
> >it.  While it was shorter and just as unique, it was also even more 
> >meaningless than before.  Two people I showed it to -- both strong 
> >coders but not using bazaar -- hated it and thought it was distracting.
> >
> >I know the dotted-revno may change as the branch is updated, but I 
> >figured for a single browsing session, it will almost always stay the 
> >same.
> I wish this part of bazaar would be changed (or at least configurable so 
> that revnos are guaranteed not to change) then this wouldn't be a problem
> 
> See bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/73752

Revno's will always change sometimes. They are not globally unique.
That's why the revision identifiers are so important.

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                  				- Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb at ucw.cz>