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

[Chong Yidong]

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

> The Emacs project has a number of branches published on a well-known
> site, and hopefully other branches distributed along a number of
> personal machines. I'm saying that using revision numbers is confusing
> when those revisions are merged across branches. Across *any* branches,
> including the "random" ones (whatever your definition of "random branch"
> is.)

Most commit messages containing revision numbers seem to refer to things
like reverting the changes in a prior revision.  Here, there is not much
scope for ambiguity, so I think the practice is acceptable.