A revision number is, indeed, local to the working repository. A changeset ID, however is global.
>From Mercurial's documentation: Revision numbers referring to changesets are very likely to be different in another copy of a repository. Do not use them to talk about changesets with other people. Use the changeset ID instead See: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RevisionNumber ~/santa On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote: > 2011/3/13 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:34:21 +0100 > > benjamin.peterson <python-check...@python.org> wrote: > >> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/52940f7f3726 > >> changeset: 68416:52940f7f3726 > >> user: Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > >> date: Sat Mar 12 18:35:23 2011 -0600 > >> summary: > >> bump ast version > >> > >> files: > >> Python/Python-ast.c > >> > >> diff --git a/Python/Python-ast.c b/Python/Python-ast.c > >> --- a/Python/Python-ast.c > >> +++ b/Python/Python-ast.c > >> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ > >> > >> > >> /* > >> - __version__ 68409:c017695acf19. > >> + __version__ 68410:0daa6ba25d9b. > > > > Is the version number necessary? It is local to the repository of the > > person regenerating the file, and therefore not very reliable (for > > example, 68410 on hg.python.org points to > > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f757b3b79c2a). > > > > The changeset id should be sufficient. > > I thought people might be comparing based on version numbers. > > > > -- > Regards, > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/santoso.wijaya%40gmail.com >
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