[FFmpeg-devel] Who is against GIT now?

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:

> Well, I am not sure that there is a need for revision numbers, but
> particularly for FATE the "necessary" thing IMO is a way to uniquely
> identify a specific version that
> 1) allows ordering
> 2) allows to know if there were any changes in-between
>
> I guess 1) could be solved by using year-month-day-hour-minute-second
> as one big number,

Dates aren't always ordered. rebase (including pull --rebase) and 
cherry-pick modify commit order without changing the dates.

--Loren Merritt