> -----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

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