Re:Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons
by lars512 on Thursday May 13, 2010 @08:06AM
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The use case for numeric local revisions is pretty clear. How many global operations do you really do? In reality, nearly all operations are local. So would you rather write r37 or 0b090d7267df? Why wouldn't you want the choice?
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Re:Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons
by pyre on Thursday May 13, 2010 @04:50PM
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Two points:
1. You can abbreviate the SHA-1's in git
2. When you are collaborating on code, it's much more common to use a global identifier so that people can all know which commit is being referenced. It seems like you are making things needlessly complex when you are trying to maintain local and global revision numbers, for little (in my opinion) return. Sure 'r37' is easier to remember off-hand than '5b98d8f' (a shortened SHA1), but if you memorize 'r37' it only means something locally, you'll still have to lookup the global revision id when you want to communicate with others.