Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere).

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juanma Barranquero writes:

 > > If a series of commits on a feature branch mentions one another
 > > by revison number, after merging them into trunk (or into any
 > > other branch) those numbers are wrong.
 > 
 > Isn't that a case of "if it hurts, don't do that"?

Sure.  But then everything is.  "Sometimes Emacs crashes, so don't use
Emacs."  It is very typical to refer to a parent revision in a feature
branch.  I don't see why one should stop doing so.