Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 09:22, Jeremy Pereira wrote:
>
>> (revision
>>aliases are simple to implement so there is probably a philosophical
>>reason why the developers haven't implemented them).
>
>
> Not really, it just never occurred to us as important. We've been using
> the global revision numbers themselves for so long (to do merges,
> annotate issues, etc), we've never felt the "itch" to refer to them by
> human names.
an small advantage of assigning an additional descriptive
strings ('human names') to a revision could make life easier when
using dumpfilter to remove data or when using incremental dumps
to "cut off" very old revisions from in history.
because as far as i understood, when doing this (filter, cut),
all revision numbers beyond the removed revisions will
then have an offset (except if you fill up the deleted
revisions with no-ops)
but the descriptive strings would still stick (tag) on the correct
revision.
:-)
c.a.t.
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Received on Tue Apr 6 14:21:36 2004