Getting revision numbers from a centralized repository

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 02.06.2010 14:53, cowwoc wrote:
> On 02/06/2010 8:47 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> 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
>>    
> 
>      Where do I read up (and see samples of) the different kinds of 
> version numbers? Specifically, I'm curious about the 6-character version 
> you mentioned. Is this a truncated change-set number or a revision number?
> 
> PS: Ideally I'm aiming for a 1-4 digit version number.
> 

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#specifying-single-revisions

Read carefully (quoting):

"A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision identifier.

A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a unique
revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form identifier. A
short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix of exactly one
full-length identifier."


And there's http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangeSetID on the wiki.