Short revision numbers - are they shared now?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net> wrote:
> 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

Yes. That was the cause. "hg log --hidden" revealed all these. The only
problem was to discover this command, because "hg log --hidden" itself
is hidden from the output of "hg log -h".
-- 
anatoly t.