Git relative revision numbers

Question

Is it possible (somehow) to have in Git (local) relative revision (commit) numbers, like in Mercurial 0, 1, 2, 3, ... instead of short hashes?

Answer 1

I just made something doing exactly this: dash-r. It's still rough, but you might find it useful.

Basically, it's a shim that can produce a modified version of the basic git log with commit lines like so:

commit 4  id: a4d0892d38f4d72902e35a5b1ca11e602fffcef6

and then reference these numbers by surrounding the -r invocation with backticks:

git diff `-r 2`

(Assuming you install it in your path with the name "-r". I do that since it looks like a regular option if I ignore the backticks.)

It can even handle ranges and negative numbers:

git diff `-r 2..-2`

Git's lack of revision numbers has been a major hurdle for me in warming to Git. Seeing SHA hashes in git log breaks my flow. So I hope it will help both of us.