Getting revision numbers from a centralized repository

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 14:46, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> Some background about this: I realize that Hg encourages the use of
> hexadecimal change-sets, but posting "fixed in changeset <40 character
> sequence>" is not very nice. I'd like QA and developers to pass version
> numbers between one another using the shorter, easier-to-remember, revision
> numbers.
>
> Any ideas?

Use the 12-character version of the hex sequence. Or a 6-character
version (if your repo is not too big).

Cheers,

Dirkjan