From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:00:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20140303220021.GD3841@acm.acm> References: <20140303180952.GA3841@acm.acm> <874n3fccji.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ob1nugc5.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393884239 27789 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2014 22:03:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers , Dmitry Gutov To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 23:04:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKaxy-0007Jx-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:04:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKaxy-0000lG-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKaxq-0000l5-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKaxl-00070b-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:03:58 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:33484 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKaxk-0006xL-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 62819 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Mar 2014 22:03:51 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951890E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.137.14]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:03:49 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 6991 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 2014 22:00:21 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ob1nugc5.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170108 Archived-At: Hi, Andreas. On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:23:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Dmitry Gutov writes: > > Being able to refer to commits directly is very useful, and especially > > in Git where revision identifiers (hashes) are global. > Using only the hash is frowned upon, the best practice is to follow it > with the subject of the commit message. Is this because the hashes don't count as human-readable, in contrast to the sequential revision numbers that other systems (such as bzr and hg) use? > Andreas. > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).