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

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> >> 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.
>> 
>> If you have the revision, you already have the DAG that contains all its
>> predecessors.
>
> The logs only mention the revision IDs, so what I have the revision
> ID, not the revision itself.

Using the revision number makes things no better here. At least with the
revision id you have the key for finding the revision, if you have it in
some branch.