On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:26:17 -0400 Jon Yoder <darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/12/2011 06:26 AM, Ingo Weinhold wrote: > > I'm still fan of the comparable revision number idea. Maybe the date > part > > can be extended by another component to make it unique? E.g. > > "2011-05-11-13" would denote the 13th changeset that day. Would that be > > possible? > I am, too. Another possibility would be to include the time down to the > nanosecond level -- something like > `date -u "+%Y-%m-%d-%k:%M.%N"` could get the job in a way that is quite > readable and may not even need to include the hash itself. Just my $0.02. Do the tools even store times with that precision? At least a simple "log" only produces full seconds with either. git's --date=raw option (which I'd expect to show what is actually stored) produces what looks like a number of seconds since some point in time. CU, Ingo