El vie, 21-01-2011 a las 13:55 -0600, Miguel Cobá escribió: > Yes we understand, but that only applies to centralized SCM like > subversion. > In a distributed SCM like git and monticello the number means nothing. > e.g. there could be two branches yours and mine, and both have 345 > commits in it. Supposing that we don't skip any number and did nothing > weird, there would be exactly 690 versions and bot > Package-MiguelCoba.345.mcz and Package-IgorStasenko.345.mcz. If you did > those 345 versions in one day and I did mines on a year, one for day, > the only way to know which one is more "recent" is with timestamps. But > the numbers means nothing in distributed SCMs. > > Cheers
See, Git don't even use a number, it uses the SHA1 of the bytes that were changed in the repository between commits. That is the most unnumbered-sequentially way to mark a commit. For all practical purposes it is a random number. Cheers
