Dotted revno "algebra"

[Ben Finney]

Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com> writes:

> 705
>   702.2.16
>   702.2.15
>
> implies there is some meaning to those numbers that is useful to me.
> Not sure that in practise it is useful at all. It is like Martin says,
> I think: just a token.

I find it very useful as a meaningful indicator of how distant the
ancestor was in the history. I also find it useful that each commit in
the current branch has a regularly incrementing revno, regardless of
merges.

> And, as someone said last week, if I need to see the further
> relationship between what merged where, I use bzr-gtk.

Sure, there's no denying that seeing the graph can be more useful. That
doesn't detract from the usefulness of dotted revnos.

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Ben Finney
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