Re: SVN has been replaced by Mercurial for official Euphoria development
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Dec 20, 2010
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The sum of all that information will tell us, unambiguously, which binary is older or newer than another binary, even if devs were to share binary builds and get them mixed up.
I hate to ask, but I feel I just gotta. Do we really need to know all this?
No, I don't think we need all of that. However, for dev purposes, the local rev number is useful, to me, at least. I think the path info is a bridge too far, and can easily be recorded by...copying the file to a particular place / keeping it inside the local repo.
I think the local rev number can be useful, since you can use it as a parameter when updating, not to mention keeping track of what hg bisect gets up to. Once you leave a repo, it's less reliable, so for true distributions, it's not very useful. But it's a heck of a lot more human friendly (where applicable) than a SHA sum.
Matt
