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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:58:38 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:36:07 +0200
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >> 
> >> > 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?
> >
> > Why not the whole DAG, dammit?
> 
> The rev id _is_ the whole DAG.

But if I don't have some of the branches, those parts of the DAG are
not on my machine.  And I want to have them, pronto.