Aaron Bentley wrote:
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>> The naming in git really is beautiful and beautifully simple.
> 
> Well, you've got to admit that those names are at least superficially
> ugly. 

If you want pretty name, you tag it. Tags are exchanged during 
fetch/push operation. And you can have pretty names of revisions
like v1.4.3
 
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>> It's not monotonically increasing from one revision to the next, but
>> I've never found that to be an issue. Of course, we do still use our
>> own "simple" names for versioning the releases and snapshots of
>> software we manage with git, and that's where being able to easily
>> determine "newer" or "older" by simple numerical examination is
>> important. I've honestly never encountered a situation where I was
>> handed two git sha1 sums and wished that I could do the same thing.
> 
> What's nice is being able see the revno 753 and knowing that "diff -r
> 752..753" will show the changes it introduced.