From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713204745.GA13835@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eeb421e1-b9db-e9d4-7358-b02470a6c8a3@cs.ucla.edu>
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
> On 07/13/2018 02:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think generating the RFC3339 time stamps is more error-prone than
> > the "normal" date/time, especially if you copy/paste the latter from
> > the Git log.
>
> Could we make it easier to generate an action stamp from the commit ID
> or from a position in a VC log buffer when editing a later commit
> message? The idea is to have something that is easier and more reliable
> than the current process, where I manually convert the timestamp format
> and time zone. I'm not surprised that others don't want to bother with
> doing that.
We have this tool called "Emacs"....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-13 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-13 9:13 Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages (WAS: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el) Noam Postavsky
2018-07-13 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 12:59 ` Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:01 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:07 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:24 ` Yuri Khan
2018-07-13 17:30 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 18:17 ` John Yates
2018-07-13 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:25 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 18:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-13 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 19:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-13 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 20:10 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 20:47 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2018-07-14 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 14:38 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-14 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 9:49 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-14 2:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-14 2:51 ` Brett Gilio
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