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docs: revision numbers are technically stable
From `hg help glossary`: "Note that the revision number may be different in
each clone of a repository." But cloning the same repo multiple times yields
the same result, and that shows that revision numbers are stable.
| author | Anton Shestakov <av6@dwimlabs.net> |
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| date | Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:33:54 +0700 |
| parents | fff7ddbef685 |
| children | 3874bc10d4a7 |
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--- a/docs/sharing.rst Sun Nov 10 05:14:53 2019 +0700 +++ b/docs/sharing.rst Mon Nov 11 02:33:54 2019 +0700 @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ (You may notice a change in notation from the user guide: now changesets are labelled with their revision number and the first four digits of the 40-digit hexadecimal changeset ID. Mercurial revision -numbers are never stable when working across repositories, especially +numbers are not consistent when working across repositories, especially when obsolescence is involved. We'll see why shortly.) Now let's switch to ``test-repo`` to test our change::