[haiku-development] Re: New way to access subversion for developers
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:09:28 +0200 CEST
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > FYI the reason the SHA1 hashes are used for revisions is because
> > > of
> > > the decentralized nature. When everyone has their own repo, what
> > > does
> > > r1234 mean? Your r1234 might be totally different than mine. You
> > > just
> > > can't have a global atomic incremental revision number in
> > > decentralized systems.
> > As long as there is an official repository (and IMHO there should
> > always be
> > one), that one could generate the revision numbers. I understand
> > why
> > hashes
> > are used, but I agree with Michael that they are by far not as
> > handy
> > as
> > revision numbers.
>
> Mercurial also supports revision numbers for each repository - in
> addition to the hash value.
> That means that as long as we have an official repository (I agree
> with
> Ingo that we should always have this), there could also be meaningful
> revision numbers with "hg" as well.
>
> I've played around with both, git and Mercurial in the past a bit,
> but
> using it on-top of SVN is at least inconvenient. Unlike git's SVN
> support, Mercurial's is not really ready for use, though.
>
Note there are some extentions to hg, maybe there is someone that does
what you want...
François.
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