Re: FAQ about global revisions

Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> writes:

> > From: Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org>
> > To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:12:48 -0500
> > Subject: Re: FAQ about global revisions
> >
> > FWIW, i *like* global revision numbers and can't fathom why so many
> > people dislike or misunderstand them :-/.
>
> i didn't like them either at first. but just from reading this list
> it's obvious how great they are.

Well, I guess that one of the cool things about global revision
numbers is that every commit (changeset) has a definite name. That's
why we can so easily talk about "reverting r2504", whereas on other
projects, people talk about "reverting joe's 11:03am commit last
tuesday". :-)

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Received on Mon Jul 15 21:31:03 2002