[admin] Re: [slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

[Chris Dean]

bdowning at lavos.net (Brian Downing) writes:
> In almost all other systems, there a unique identifier, usually 40
> characters or less, that can uniquely identify each and every
> revision, globally.  In darcs, you either have to have a long
> patchset file, or you have to tag (how CVS!) to identify a version.

Do you mean a unique identifier for each patch?  In darcs you can use
the hash for a patch

  darcs annotate --summary --match \
    'hash 20040403105958-53a90-c719567e92c3b0ab9eddd5290b705712b8b918ef'

Use the --xml-output option to find the hash.  It 61 characters
though.

Cheers,
Chris Dean