Short revision numbers - are they shared now?

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of anatoly techtonik
> 
> I've just noticed that short revision numbers are not consecutive for
> my repository. Are they shared now?
> Meaning that I can reference short revisions in they are gone public?

AFAIK, this is not the case. It may seem to be that way if you always push/pull all revisions, especially while using a central "server" clone. Revision numbers are essential the chronological order of commit creation in your repository clone, that can of course vary across clones. E.g. if you do work in parallel with a colleague, his commit will be first in his repository, followed by your commit, while your commit will be first in your repository, followed by his commit. At the moment of parallel work, both of you will see the latest revision number as your commits, while after push/pull, both of you will see the latest revision number as your colleague's commit, respectively.

I wouldn't know how you should go about sharing this revision number concept consistently within the DVCS concept. At one point in time, it will always be ambiguous.

Non-consecutive revision numbers might be due to hidden changesets and/or log filtering. A plain "hg log --hidden" should always show consecutive numbers IMHO.

Regards,
Fritz


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