Dotted revno "algebra"

[John Szakmeister]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste at canonical.com> wrote:
> I completely agree.
>
> There is no difference for me between 8564.1.32.1 and
> launchpad at pqm.canonical.com-20100501085755-q23vnwvz5it2xs8v
>
> That's to mean that, if I want to do something with a dotted revision, I'll
> have to find it first in a bzr log output, and then copy it. Because it doesn't
> mean anything to me.
>
> As this seems to be causing all sorts of performance problem, I'd suggest
> dropping them entirely. Keeping revno on the mainline is nice, but everything
> else could simply use SHA-1 identifier or whatever, and nobody will care...
> really.

I, for one, agree.  Revnos on the mainline are good, and I think we
should keep them.  Now that I've seen some instances where the dotted
revno were not actually telling me anything useful about a commit, I'd
just as soon get rid of them and refer to them with the hash (assuming
we can use a shortened version of the hash).  Otherwise, revids are
fine by me.

-John