[darcs-users] patch numbers and annotate and diff etc.

[Thomas Zander]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 00:02, David Roundy wrote:
> One possibility is a mostly-globally-unique string, which could either be
> a short hash or a hex time.  This has the advantage of being
> mostly-globally-unique, but suffers from a tradeoff between uniqueness
> and rememberability.  I tend not to favor this idea.

The fact that patchnumbers change on each 'pull'/'apply'/'optimize'/ 
'record'/'rollback'/'unpull'/'unrecord'/others?
just makes me feel this is going to confuse people.

> The simplest way is to simply count backwards, so the most recent patch is
> 1, and so on.  This has the advantage of making the patches you're likely
> to refer to have the smallest rather than the largest numbers. 

I'm glad that this solution will likely not cause people to mistake these 
numbers with the version numbers cvs/svn etc have, since that really 
worried me.

I can live with this :)
-- 
Thomas Zander
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