Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere).

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
> A revision number only makes sense on the branch where it was created
> (and this only after setting some options, as Emacs did.) If I'm reading
> the VC log on a random branch and see "Fix breakage introduced by rXXXX"
> and want to look at the referenced revision, I need to switch to trunk
> and hope that XXXX corresponds to one of its revisions. If a series of
> commits on a feature branch mentions one another by revison number,
> after merging them into trunk (or into any other branch) those numbers
> are wrong.
>
> So, if you wish to refer to another revision on the commit message (or
> anywhere else) please use the revision id, which is unique for every
> commit.

Why not both rev number and rev id?