Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> FWIW I have basically never used Bzr's revno in conversations.
> There's no question that they're handy, and I've used them, but I
> think that dates work well enough in practice as a replacement (with
> pretty much the same downsides).  Just replace
> 
>     "That was fixed in revision 118147, have you updated since then?"
> with
>     "That was fixed on Sep 23, have you updated since then?"

`git describe' and/or `git describe --tags' returns sequential
numbers, more or less.  It's essentially a tool to do the opposite,
this is, showing the most recent tag that is reachable from a given
commit, but it contains the number of commits in its return value.


    Werner