Sequence numbers in DVCS's have a few problems that don't exist in a centralized VCS like SVN:
- The sequence numbering will be different in each repo. This makes a sequence
number completely meaningless without a context repo
- Attempting to use a "centralized" repo as the canonical source for sequence
numbers is unwieldy, and doesn't even work in any workflow besides
hub-and-spokes
- Any time you have to reference a sequence number, you have to talk to the central repo to figure out what it is. SVN has to talk to its
- Attempting to use a "centralized" repo as the canonical source for sequence
numbers is unwieldy, and doesn't even work in any workflow besides
hub-and-spokes