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: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 09:46:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20141101094604.GA3020@acm.acm> References: <20141029105202.249acb5a@anarchist.wooz.org> <87bnouapiy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029150600.GA5701@thyrsus.com> <20141029141216.7abbbc0d@anarchist.wooz.org> <87tx2m2pw8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sii43u15.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877fzf3dr2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87oasrl7sn.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <87k33f4ay9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414835230 19729 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2014 09:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 09:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 01 10:47:03 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 1XkVGx-0000DO-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:47:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkVGw-0002jk-SF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkVGm-0002cY-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkVGf-0002Gu-4G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:51115 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkVGe-0002Go-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 59172 invoked by uid 3782); 1 Nov 2014 09:46:42 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9518B1F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.139.31]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3055 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Nov 2014 09:46:04 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k33f4ay9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> 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:176198 Archived-At: Good morning, David. On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > It's not like anybody's going to want to type off "abbreviations" by > hand anyway: too error-prone. I'm going to want to do this, that's why I started this thread. Using a computer to kill and yank such a number is going to be such a downer. Do you also kill and yank a variable name each time you need to type it in, or do you just type it? Likely, I'm not going to be able to do this. Remembering and typing in a revision number is trivial: two chunks of memory - one for the bit that slowly changes "118" the other for the "220" at the end. With 40 digit hex strings, even abbreviated, it's going to be 6 or 7 chunks to memorise. As you say, this will be error-prone. > Just paste the full thing. Really. I've been developing for years > with Git, and that's just what everybody does most of the time. Because they have to, not because it's their preferred way of working. > -- > David Kastrup -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).