> -----Original Message----- > From: David Golden [mailto:xda...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 11:48 PM > To: Bill Ward > Cc: module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Re: how to set $VERSION throughout distribution > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Bill Ward <b...@wards.net> wrote: > > Subversion is more like mercurial/git in that sense - versions go by > > changesets rather than individual files. > > I think he meant it in the sense of having a monotonically increasing > revision number, which doesn't exist for git.
Luckily, Mercurial has integer revision numbers too :) It is a nice thing to have when you just want to diff head againts something a little older without searching the hash id. i.e.: hg diff -r 149 -r 147 -p vs hg diff -r 984d0a47dffa -r b9340f23777b -p However, I'm against using revisions as versions. > -- David