From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:15 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20180713190615.GA10799@thyrsus.com> References: <85f9a968-ba72-5b00-761e-a4449b073a7f@cs.ucla.edu> <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531510153 31507 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 19:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:29:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 21:29:08 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3kY-00084j-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:29:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38902 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3mf-00068o-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3OV-000138-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3OU-0000M6-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from thyrsus.com ([71.162.243.5]:44960 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3OR-0000Jp-3S; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 69DDA3A4AA7; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:15 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:30:21 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227368 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > I'm not sure having hyperlinks justifies the trouble of having to > concoct those stamps. In a repository such as we have in Emacs, a > time stamp should allow you to find the commit fairly easily, I think. While this is true, experience leads me to fear a proliferation of varying and damaged timestamp formats uttered by people in a hurry. Only a convention as simple and strong as action stamps has any hope of being effective against this sort of drift. -- Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own.