From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:34:30 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410510936 2758 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2014 08:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 10:35:30 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 1XSMKH-0004B5-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMKH-000851-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMJz-00083u-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMJu-0000sk-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:60989 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMJp-0000bQ-DS; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E1FB3380604; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:34:30 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:174197 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > > From: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) > > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:36:52 -0400 (EDT) > > > > The correct format for a commit reference that will remain > > intelligible across every VCS, forever, is this: > > > > ! > > > > Example: 2010-11-13T21:07:58Z!eliz@gnu.org > > Btw, what is here? Is that the author or the > committer? The committer. This choice helps avoid collisions. It is unlikely that one committer will ever manage two commits in the same clock second. Slightly less ulikely that two different committers at different consoles will check in a patch from a different author. -- Eric S. Raymond