[Adium-devl] Version Control - To change or not to change? THAT is the question!

[Peter Hosey]

On Jan 02, 2008, at 10:07:24, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>> But would we be able to do something like $DVCS diff -r42:43?
>
> It would be $DVCS diff -r 42 -r 43 more likely (diff revision with  
> tag '42' to revision with tag '43) but the idea remains the same.   
> Tags should be automatically expanded to their respective version  
> numbers.

Ah, I see.

> the one caveat would be that you can't do that form of diff for  
> commits which have been made locally but not pushed, and you'd need  
> to pull from the server after pushing for the tags to be available.

This all seems like a lot of hackery to get monotonic rev numbers,  
and it doesn't even completely do the job. Meanwhile, there are other  
DVCSs (bzr and hg) that provide them natively.

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