Dotted revno "algebra"

[Andrew Cowie]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:21 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think that users see the dotted revnos basically as near-opaque
> tokens for revisions.  They're not inherently useful or meaningful to
> anywhere near the degree that mainline revnos are.

I gotta say, after all this time, I can't help but wonder why not just
use integers.

I mean, other than a number that increases a ~ # revisions on branch
rather than ~ # left edge revisions, what is wrong with sequential whole
number revnos:

705
  703
  702
  701
  700
  699
698
  697
696
695
694
  693

instead of dotted revnos?

705
  702.2.16
  702.2.15

implies there is some meaning to those numbers that is useful to me. Not
sure that in practise it is useful at all. It is like Martin says, I
think: just a token.

And, as someone said last week, if I need to see the further
relationship between what merged where, I use bzr-gtk.

AfC
Sydney

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