Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?]

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Oct 31 2015, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> More generally, Git's main problem is that it breaks almost every
>> human habit gained with the other VCSes: instead of an easily
>> remembered numerical version IDs you have those inhuman hashes
>
> Shrug.  In a distributed version control system, numerical version IDs
> don't make sense.

They make a lot of sense if you don't require them to be constant over
time. Mercurial solves this beautifully. It has hashes if you need to
constant identifier, but if you just want to refer to the commit that
got printed/created/referred to by the command you typed 30 seconds ago,
you can use its handy numerical id.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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