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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Uday S Reddy writes:

 > Not really.  Since r43 is a reference to a revision _local_ to the
 > merged branch, it is easy to interpret it as a reference to 42.1.1.

You only know it's local to the branch if you have global knowledge of
the whole project.  But if you do have that knowledge, it doesn't much
matter how you make these references.