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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> As recently as a year ago there was a discussion on new ideas for
>> calculating revision numbers:
> I'll be happy to switch to using revids as soon as they give the users
> more convenient way to handle them.  The current schema of
> email-yyyymmddhhmmss-randomshit does not give itself easily to
> abbreviation.

Agreed, rev-ids are inconvenient to use (and really ugly: SHA-1 hashes
are visually stunning in comparison).  That's why I use dates instead.
They're also good in ChangeLog since the date can be used the find the
relevant commit without using Bzr at all.


        Stefan