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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:55:41 +0200
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On 09/27/2009 02:24 PM, Anteru wrote:
> What's
> the rationale behind this decision for git, and is it possible to
> emulate Mercurial's behavior somehow?

While not exactly the same thing, 'git describe' is very helpful in 
comparing versions (if you know that one is an ancestor of the other).

Paolo