commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> [2008.11.13.1540 +0100]:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:42:44PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > Except, of course, there is no such thing as an SVN-Commit. r123
> > is a state, a snapshot, the commit if the diff against r-1.
> > I think hg is like Git
> 
> well, in git the commit-ids also represent the state of the whole
> tree like in svn.

Yes, but we are talking about commits, about changes which resolve
a given bug. It's only SVN's limitation that you cannot do 'svn show
r123' and get what you want to see.

> > but I think bzr also doesn't have commit identifiers.
> 
> without rechecking, from what i remember reading there are local
> revision ids which are sequential, but also hashes (either for the
> commit or the tree) which are global like in git.

Good.

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