On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Yeah, I agree on both points. There might be a way to have a git commit hook or something that could generate normal SVN-style revision numbers whenever commits are pushed to it. But day to day you might need to use the SHA1 hashes. But I have yet to use them myself for anything. Ryan