Short revision numbers - are they shared now?

[Martin Geisler]

anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

No, quite the opposite: when you begin using the evolve extension, your
local Mercurial will hide (instead of strip) changesets you're amended
and rebased. The hidden changesets still take up a revision number and
this is what causes the gaps in the numbers.

When you push your changes to another repository, it is only the final
version that you push. So if you see commits with revision numbers

  10 other stuff
  11 more stuff
  15 my new feature

in your local repo, then they will end up with revision number like in
the central repository (assuming (among other things) that noone else
pushed anything):

  10 other stuff
  11 more stuff
  12 my new feature

That is, the number change since you're not pushing your own hidden
revisions (12-14). Revisions 12-14 could be old amended versions of what
became your revision 15.

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Martin Geisler